Rigorous science: suggestions on how to raise the bar
Rigorous science: suggestions on how to raise the bar
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严谨的科学：关于如何提高标准的建议
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2003
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T. Shenk
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David R. Anderson;E. Cooch;R. J. Gutiérrez;C. Krebs;M. Lindberg;K. Pollock;C. Ribic;T. Shenk
专业精神的一个目标是永远努力做得更好。作为一门应用科学，野生动物生态学的广阔领域在二十世纪取得了许多成就。然而，展望未来，我们显然必须接受挑战，把工作做得更好-实际上是做得更好。在这里，我们把注意力集中在提高我们的科学质量这个总的主题上，因为这将导致更好的资源管理。对这一重要主题的一个有见地的切入点是Romesburg（1991）的论文，我们认为，与他十年前更著名的获奖论文（Romesburg 1981）相比，这篇论文被忽视了。1991年，《野生动物管理杂志》（Journal of Wildlife Management）专门开辟了一个“可靠知识”的专栏，这比罗梅斯堡的原始论文晚了10年。11年和21年后的今天，我们必须面对这样一个事实，即我们的科学质量没有得到充分的改变。在我们的科学产品中存在着高度的异质性;有些是相当典型的，而太多的只是穷人。在我们的职业中，有些人缺乏区分好东西的教育或经验（例如，“善”者，善也;“恶”者，恶也。Romesburg肯定会得出结论，我们有一些更好的平房，但没有泰姬陵（Romesburg 1991：744）是在绘图板上，更少的资金。沃尔夫（Wolff，2000）和白色（White，2001）提供了最近的观点，并敦促我们的工作更加严谨，而奥康纳（O 'Connor，2000）和斯韦哈特等人（Swihart et al.，2002）则提出了变革的紧迫感。我们几乎相信在我看来
A goal of professionalism is always to try to do better. The broad field of wildlife ecology as an applied science produced many accomplishments during the twentieth century. However, as we look ahead, it seems clear that we must accept the challenge to do better—indeed, far better. Here we focus attention on the general subject of improving the quality of our science, for this will lead to better resource management. An insightful entree into this important subject is Romesburg’s (1991) paper, which we believe has been overlooked in comparison to his betterknown and award-winning paper a decade earlier (Romesburg 1981). The Journal of Wildlife Management devoted a special section to “reliable knowledge” in 1991, 10 years after Romesburg’s original paper. Now, 11 and 21 years later, we must face the fact that insufficient change has been made in the quality of our science. There is a high level of heterogeneity in our science products; some are quite exemplary, while too many are simply poor. Some people in our profession lack the education or experience to distinguish the good (e.g., valid, well done) from the poor (questionable validity, poorly conceived or executed). Romesburg would surely conclude that we have some better bungalows, but no Taj Mahals (Romesburg 1991:744) are on the drawing boards, much less funded. Wolff (2000) and White (2001) provide recent perspectives and urge more rigor in our work, and O’Connor (2000) and Swihart et al. (2002) offer a sense of urgency for change. We believe nearly In My Opinion