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119"When research priorities are being set for science, education, or any other area, the most important question to consider is: How many people's lives will be improved if the results are successful?"
With the development of the society and economic boom, a growing body of technological achievements emerged dealing with a series of problems which were closely associated with our daily lives. A very important aspect of research is investing, including human resources, material resources and so on. The result of that is we should arrange our limited resources reasonable. But, if we evaluate the research priorities by “how many people’s lives improved”, the result is likely to inequitable, because it is hard to define “the improved lives” or accurate statistics on the number of improved lives at all. I think Research priorities should continue in areas that social benefits are clear and immediate, or at least, predictable.
Firstly, we can compare the situation between two different fields. It may difficult to build a standard between them because they often have different research background, methods and aims. For example, in the area of education and medicine, both of them have far-reaching effects on a lot of people. The aim of educational research is to make our education more accepted and reasonable by the public, to give the greatest advantage to the public and so on. They mainly resolve the problems of students who need knowledge to improve their lives. On the other hand, medicine is an area that aims to find the way to cure people's disease and pains, to disclose the mechanism of the diseases, and to sustain the physical and physiological balance of human beings. When they decide to start a research project, both of their aims are always the same, that are ameliorating people's lives. Both of them can help great groups of people, even the past, contemporary and later. So it is impossible to calculate the real number that a research can benefit to。From above, we can see that it is hard to decide which one should be set for priority between them
Secondly, we can survey the status in the same area. When an institution choose to develop a new medicine, one is a new drug which is target to gastritis, and the other is target to gastric cancer. As we all know, the incidence of gastritis is higher than gastric cancer. If we decide to research and produce the former but not the later one, of course we can help more people get rid of the troubles.
But the gastric cancer brings more pains and severe outcomes to people, even death, it badly disturbs people’s living qualities. So, if we can invent a drug which can cure or alleviate the process of the disease to some extent, it may make a great progress not only to people’s lives but also to the whole scientific fields. What’s more, some researches may have little help to their own subject, but it may greatly impact on other areas. So it indirectly impact a lot of people, how can we judge which research takes the most important effect? Above all, the actually number that peoples’ lives improved is hard to calculate, and it depends on what kind of rules you take.
Furthermore, even if the results of researches are progressive, can it be used as a way to decrease the happiness of the people? Environment problems, which become the most significant issues that without handled correctly they will in turn kill the lives of ourselves as a human being, are the contraproductive of the profitable fast development of technology, which ] now threaten the whole species of the biosphere. The Three Mill nuclear leakage is another case in point. Such examples are so numerous that it is impossible for me to list them out. Therefore, it is pointless to set priorities at the researches.
To sum up, research is always an adventure, when we decide which research is a priority, we cannot only depend on the number of people whose lives improved, but also the extent the researches can affect our lives, their potential lasting value, the possibility that can promote social development and so on.
写得太烂了。。。思维是语言来支撑的,越来越明白这个道理。。。 |
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