“I will pass over the false starts, the dead ends, and the floundering arounds, save to note that there were a lot and that the research was nowhere as tidy and sequential as it can seem in the telling. Let me also note that the findings should have been staggeringly obviously to us had we thought of them in the first place. But we didn’t. Opposite propositions were often what seemed obvious.”
William H Whyte, in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, p15.
Oh, it’s always the same. I’m going to say that about my current research: “the findings should have been staggeringly obvious had we thought of them in the first place”.
