Syndetic Systems - Research

"Research? I can do that all by myself. I can Google™ it!"

And for many things, you certainly can! But, what to do with it when you get it? Is it valid information? Is it reliable, accurate, current, applicable -- or is it tangential, out-dated, inaccurate, unreliable -- or part of a scam, phishing attempt, or a commercial advertisement?

The Deep Web

And what happens when your research isn't so simple? Suppose you need a multi-year series of Congressional or Board of County Commissioners' votes, a 10-year School System budget comparison, or newspaper articles arguing against smoking tobacco from 1925. How about the British Army casualty rolls from the Crimean War or 1893 criminal court records for Johnson County, Kansas? Where do you start to look and whose information do you trust?

Our Research Services

At Syndetic Systems, we not only find "it," we make sure that the information we send on to you is reliable and valid. Depending on your needs, we can supply raw research, or organize and summarize it for you. We locate and retrieve your information items through a complex combination of approaches -- making sure to filter out the vast "dis-information" that exists in the Internet and in print. Click here to get started!

About Research

"Look, Ma -- no Java, no Flash, no nothin'! An' it moves, too!"

"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
-- Franklin Pierce Adams

"I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company."
-- Edwin H. Land, 1944

"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins and then restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible."
-- J. W. von Goethe

"No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research."
-- Harry Mintzberg

"Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it."
-- George W. Merck, 1952

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
-- Zora Neale Hurston

"L'art du chercheur c'est d'abord de se trouver un bon patron."[The researcher's art is first of all to find himself a good boss.]
-- Andre Michel Lwoff, 1991

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine)

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
-- Albert Einstein

"Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious."
-- A. James Gregor, An Introduction to Metapolitics, 1971

"Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool."
-- Kelvin Throop III

"We are in the midst of an information revolution, so much so that even lay people know the basic facts about information � how it can be encoded in bits 0 and 1, stored, retrieved, transmitted, and processed using logic gates like AND and NOT. This revolution is based on our ability to treat information in an abstract way, largely independent of its physical embodiment, which may be as diverse as a hole in a punch card, a voltage in a wire, or the magnetization of a speck of iron oxide."
� Physics of Information Group at IBM Research, 2007.

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
-- Albert Einstein

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
-- Niels Bohr

"A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats."
-- Anonymous

"Never be too sure of what you find in books; but prove all things and hold fast to those only which you find to be beyond dispute. Thus will you save yourself from falling into many errors, and from recanting many opinions. It is the method of ordinary education to take everything for granted; it is the method of science to take nothing for granted."
--Ainsworth Rand Spofford
A Book for All Readers. . . .
(New York & London: G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1900), 255.
Available at Project Gutenberg.

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."
-- Zig Ziglar

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