Busco un problema de investigación ¡y no lo encuentro!

Abstract

The first research resembles an academic rite of passage. Those who strive for an academic degree submit themselves to unique “arbiters of science.” Hence, inflexible methods and soporific dogmas are usually the non-negotiable yardsticks against which the degree of “scientificity” of early research attempts is measured.
The poor cultivation of the reading habit, methodological rigidity, and the poverty of research skills have generated the “academic horror” in which we live. This dismay is underpinned by plagiarism to obtain bombastic academic degrees fraudulently.
The capacity for the wonder of the pilgrims of “scientific research” crumbles in the face of the irrational obstacles proposed by the “arbiters of science.”
Researchers are thus challenged to look beyond the boundaries of “the small village of stereotypical research problems.” This village comprises pompous ideas, repetitive problems, and a rigid scheme that stifles any intention of creativity and wonder.
Countless inquiring minds wander through academic forums searching for a relevant research problem and fail to find it. In this context, “the arbiters of science” emerge, who assess as inconsistent, fragile, inconsequential, and even ignorant: all more or less audacious research proposals.
The problem consists in starting the journey, and indeliberately formulating the research problem since a prior effort is required before entering into the architecture of scientific questions. Thus, this work vindicates the zero phase of research, which is related to previous reflections and intellectual operations to pose a relevant scientific problem, as well as the humility necessary to carry out the scientific activity.