In the first edition of this book, I claimed that humanity could be divided into three groups: (1) those who conduct their own research studies, (2) those who do not formally engage in the research process but nonetheless encounter the results of others’ investigations, and (3) those who are neither “makers” nor “consumers” of research claims. Now, nearly 40 years since I made that statement, I still believe that every person on the face of the Earth can be classified into one of those three groups. However, it is clear to me that the relative sizes and the needs of the three groups are different now than.
