Problems Encountered by Researchers in Pakistan

Problems faced by Pakistani researchers during the process of research are:

Selection of New Topic/Lack of Confidence to Take up a New Study

Insufficient Data
Library Management is Poor
High Cost of Publishing
Huge Misleading Data on Internet
Records are not Provided by Authorities
Journals are not Available
Time and Money
Inappropriate Data Analysis Technique
High Cost of Publishing
Blind Leading the Blind

Types of Research
1. To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it
(studies with this object in view are termed as exploratory or formulative
research studies)
For example: When I was doing my internship some discussions were
concluded with consumers, employees or management. Through which I was
easily find out my solutions.
2. To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual,
situation or a group (studies with this object in view are known as
descriptive research studies)
For example: Finding the most frequent disease that affects the children of a
town. The reader of the research will know what to do to prevent that disease
thus; more people will live a healthy life.

Syed Ali Haider Naqvi

Saba Malik

3. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which

it is associated with something else (studies with this object in view are
known as diagnostic research studies)
For example: A fitness instructor wants to test the effectiveness of
a performance-enhancing herbal supplement on students in her
exercise class. To create experimental groups that are similar at
the beginning of the study, the students are assigned into two
groups at random (they cannot choose which group they are
in). Students in both groups are given a pill to take every day,
but they do not know whether the pill is a placebo (sugar pill)
or the herbal supplement. The instructor gives Group A the
herbal supplement and Group B receives the placebo (sugar
pill). The students' fitness level is compared before and after
six weeks of consuming the supplement or the sugar pill. No
differences in performance ability were found between the two
groups suggesting that the herbal supplement was not
effective.
4. To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables (such
studies are known as hypothesis-testing research studies/causal research).
For example: when we were studying stats in previous semester we were doing
hypothesis testing in which our review of hypothesis tests, we have focused on
just one particular hypothesis test, namely that concerning the population
mean .
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Syed Ali Haider Naqvi

Saba Malik