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39 Biologist Bernd Heinrich (1984, pp. 141 151) and his associates once spent a summer conducting detailed, systematic research on ant lions, small insects that trap ants in pits they have dug. Returning to the university in the fall, Heinrich was surprised to dis-cover that his results were quite different from those published by other researchers. Redoing his experiments the following summer to try to understand these discrepan-cies, Heinrich found that he and his fellow researchers had been led astray by an unex-amined assumption they had made about the ant lions time frame: Their observations hadn t been long enough to detect some key aspects of these insects behavior.
of research. part of this concern is informed by the work of the sociologist Andrew Abbott (2001, 2004). Abbott argued, on the basis of numerous examples from a range of the social sciences, that philosophical positions, rather than being unified sets of premises that strongly shape the practices of particular communities of scholars, func-
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