ABSTRACT
Creating a “paper trail” or lab notebook When you start doing research, you are likely to be only working on one study and hopefully that one study will be really important to you. It might feel like you will always remember every detail, every aspect perfectly, just like that perfect date you had that one time. But when you’re doing research time fl ies. Fast. And studies also evolve. In the beginning you may set out to only include data from right-handed participants but then realize that for some reason the study will never be complete, so you need to relax that rule. But maybe suddenly there is a fl urry of right-handers and you can go back. But wait, why did you only want right-handers again? Why is that supposed to matt er?
