It Won’t Help Me

Sometimes researchers avoid getting a record because “I already know what it will say so there’s no need to bother with it.”

And there are times where a record confirms what you already had or doesn’t tell you anything new. But there are also those times when the record contains unexpected information.

You never know what a record says until you see the record. And it’s always possible that what you “think you know” is not correct in the first place.


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