- Shashank Venkatesan
1) According to you, do you see this area of research making an impact in the next 4 years?
Ans: The area of research within the paper, dealing with methods to analyze the levels of dementia of patients, and the pros and cons of existing methods. It provides the reader with all the information required for the method.
It will make its impact especially in the early diagnosis field, giving a much more whole and complete diagnosis of dementia. Detecting dementia is a very tricky job and recording its progress is even tougher.
This research paper offers clear cut solutions as to how to record its progress mainly without any practice effects that is improvement due to similarities of tests. It also allows other factors to be counted such as age, gender, race, lifestyle, etc. It makes for great options on the basic level and hence is mostly bound to make an impact within the next four years.
2) Does the research conducted in this paper relate to another field of study, and if so, how?
Ans: This research paper dives into an important topic of the disagreements between raw statistics and its limitations when psychological factors come into play. The amount of deviation and extrapolation all the formulae within the paper are a clear example of pure math while powerful, has its limits.
It also showcases how ignoring the psychological factors can cause a huge deviation from the truth and hence we must make sure to include that as a factor. The fundamental problems with statistics such as random errors are also clearly depicted here.
3) What do you think could be the application of this research in our lives?
Ans: Dementia is a rising problem in our society and this allows even someone sitting at their homes to have a basic understanding of what are the early signs and how different tests work. They especially work out for those willing to track the onset of dementia and prepare certain precautionary action plans and make more accurate predictions about their future to ease the patients ageing process, keeping it as normal as possible. Obviously, it isn’t full proof however it does provide for a great head start.
4) What is the main focus of research, and do you think the area of research might have sub research topics that are related to it that can prove to be helpful in the future?
Ans: The area of interest of the research paper lies in explaining and understanding the different tests with which dementia can be detected, measured and tracked for patients.
The first sub-topic arising from here is the creation of new, more accurate tests, formulae and criteria for detection as we especially struggle to control mild dementia. The other sub-field of research lies in understanding the different pathways and mediums dementia presents itself from and the characteristics of patients suffering from dementia so as to better understand how exactly dementia affects one’s daily life.
5) How do you think that the current research method and materials have helped this research?
Ans: Current research methods and materials have allowed for accurate statistical data and more accurate mapping of data for the research. It has given out perfect estimations of the data and has also accurately predicted as to what can be statistically expected in the future and accurate error management. It has allowed for more precision and accuracy in all aspects of the research paper and especially reduced the chances of a random error occurring.
6) As a future researcher, what do you consider the shortcomings of this research?
Ans: The research paper fails to give a proper, definitive litmus test for identifying the progress of dementia. While it does mention certain correction factors, these factors aren’t explained enough for one to infer enough data to pinpoint where exactly the shortcomings lie. The paper also attempts to explain complex statistics within a paragraph which are a bit tough to understand and infer data from, especially in the mid-section of the paper.
More expansion on that part would’ve painted a clearer picture. In some cases, the absence of correct terminology makes the reading a bit tedious. For example, the term “summation of the two graphs” is used in the papers. Only after reading multiple times and figuring out the graph could I figure that they did not mean literal summation, but calculus integration.
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