WHY THERE IS NO “INSIGNIFICANCE” FOR A RELEVANT QUESTION
论证博士研究选题应源于现实问题，并接受实践检验，这样既能带来更令人满意和可持续的学术生涯，也能有效防止出现所谓“无意义”或“反直觉”的研究发现。
Defining the Ph.D. research topic is a non‐trivial task, and will influence a young scholar's career way beyond the actual defence of the thesis. This note makes a case for allowing the research topic to be inspired by real‐world problems and phenomena, and to let the world of practice challenge the resulting findings. This, it is argued, will lead to a personally more satisfying and sustainable research career, as well as act as an effective safeguard against so called “insignificant” or “counter‐intuitive” findings.