IT security people often say they do "vulnerability research". They defend the idea that they actually are doing some kind of "research". But is searching for vulnerabilities in software real research? A geologist looking for mines in the desert is doing "exploration", not "research".
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closed as not a real question by Dennis Williamson, Sam♦, splattne♦ Mar 31 '10 at 11:25
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Can't ethnologists do "field research"? Couldn't this meaning of the term "research" be applied here? | |||
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