User talk:Kakurland

Welcome!
Hello, Kakurland, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:35, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Studies
Hi! I wanted to give you a quick head's up about studies. These are seen as primary sources on Wikipedia because they're written by the researchers who conducted the study itself and made the conclusions. To use a study you need to have an independent, reliable source that discusses the study and its findings, like a literature review. The reasons for this are these: the publisher only reviews the study to make sure that there are no glaring errors that would immediately invalidate it - they don't provide any commentary or context for the study and they're also unable to reproduce the study to truly verify the findings. Studies are also limited in scope, as they can't survey every person or pursue all possible avenues as they don't have the time and money to do this. As such, their sample group is limited and any findings will only be applicable for that specific group at that particular time. The secondary sources will help give that commentary and context.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:01, 22 March 2019 (UTC)