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basic inventory of published research. The approach was todevelop a simple two-question survey (Appendix D) using thesame research categories used to group the papers from theresearch scan. The approach was to ask respondents to list thethree topics they felt were most in need of additional researchand the three topics they felt were already overly researched.From the results of the survey, the categories and subcategorieswere separately ranked.The survey was distributed to academics and industryprofessionals as outlined in the initial description. Thisresulted in 743 responses of which 120 were partial answerswhere respondents selected items they felt required moreresearch but did not feel anything was “over researched.” Wefound that although the instructions indicated to select the 3more important items most respondents selected far more. Ofthe 84 options the 743 respondents selected 5,547 categories oran average of 7.47 items they felt needed more research. The623 respondents who chose an option about “overlyresearched” selected 2,679 or an average of 4.3 topics (seeAppendix F for results).As a result of the much stronger expression of topicsrequiring additional research, the overall weighting results in amuch longer list of topics where more research is desired. Wefeel this is reflective of the actual belief and intent of therespondents.We felt that the design of the opinion survey wouldprovide a number of interesting perspectives on the varioustopics presented:
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