If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
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You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
You discover yourself through the research of your work.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.
All my knowledge comes from research.
I'm big on research.
All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.