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Chapter 28. Thesis: It is necessary to evaluate, appraise, and brake down quantitative research as it puts you in a better position to conduct your own. 1: Not all studies actually produce information that is actually usefully. "Also, you should be made aware that although, in an ideal sense, good research yields good knowledge, sometimes this simply does not happen" (Grinnell 577). We can not assume that all knowledge we can find is accurate and useful to what we are researching. 2: The ability to critique knowledge and information is critical to anyone that is doing research of any kind. "In addition, the repeated use of this skill will help you appraise social work research in a more critical way" (Grinnell 593). 3: "social work research, by its very nature, is fraught with empirical uncertainty" (Grinnell 593). This means you have to take everything with a grain of salt so that you never take fiction as fact. Chapter 29. Thesis: Focuses on the q...