I found this quote rather interesting: "It would appear that no 'scientific revolution,' or Kuhn paradigm, has been developed by a scientist using the research-then-theory or Baconian strategy in his research." (p.150) One would almost wonder why we continue to do research-then-theory. In spite of that, Reynolds tries to present a balanced view by outlining which situations warrant one approach over the other to achieve better efficiency in research. The paper for this week from Dennis et. al. was a good match. I felt it was a good example of the theory-then-research model because the author's are proposing a new idea which potentially could shift how people think about media choices.
Overall I found this to be a valuable overview of not only the various types of theory but how to test and create those theories. This would've been great to read before Godfrey as Reynolds summarizes Kuhn so well.
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