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There is a serious problem in academic research today. PhD students/researchers are publishing a good number of papers, sometimes even in very good journals without having a basic understanding of the methodology behind their own work. They collect data, put it into Spss, R, Stata or another software…click a few options and then simply report whatever numbers the software gives them…This is particularly concerning when such work gets published in good journals. There is a major difference between running an analysis and understanding an analysis. Knowing how to operate statistical software is not the same as knowing statistics, just as knowing how to operate a microscope is not the same as understanding biology. May good research sense prevail