Empirical Research Articles

Hello All,
This week was somewhat more difficult than normal for this week. It was more of a challenge to find articles that had an empirical research component to them on my research topic. As a reminder, I'm researching privacy rights as given under the Constitution. I found that quite simply, there is no real empirical research done on that topic. I did find many peer-reviewed articles last week and this week on the different aspects of privacy and the Constitution. There was a large dearth of research on it though. I suppose that that isn't really a surprise as it isn't that sort of topic. Though, I think I was quite hopeful for someone doing a study on the number of cases where people have done a spurious claim of some odd 'right' that they might have, there wasn't a single one, however. I ended up going with article on a study of school immunization where privacy was very well protected in the program. The next article I choose where there was a study about how some medical and social science studies are quite lax on the privacy of third parties that get talked about by subjects of those studies.

It was quite interesting to read these articles. But for my overall goal of getting more research articles for my paper, it just wasn't very fruitful. This was a good learning experience though.This made me see that perhaps one aspect of doing research of the kind I'm doing can't be answered by empirical research.