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Research design and methodology Research is creating new knowledge13. Neil Armstrong
3.1. Purpose, aim, hypotheses and methods of the research This paper’s research attempts to answer the following question: how does gender affect the level of assessment of one’s self-knowledge? The aim of the research is to address both practical and theoretical research question: how do the phenomena of the illusion of explanatory depth on an example of self-assessment differ depending on gender socialization? An online survey is considered to be the most suitable approach for this paper since this study does not require any additional conditions, but only respondents who answer questions and a timer, which was set on each of the questionnaires. Since the study for this paper concerns the topic of gender and self-knowledge assessment, all ethical considerations have not been violated: the option of the third gender is available, there are no questions about skin colour, and information about nationality and religion is collected just for the purpose of further research on data from the experiment. This survey does not have any signs of sexism, racism, or other infringements of human dignity. The structure of the experiment is as follows: 1. The experimenter and researcher who develops and conducts the experiment: the author of the paper. Levine, J., 2005. A long-overdue tribute, https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/ news/X-Press/stories/2005/102105_Wings.html (accessed 11.12.2021).
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