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How to do Optimal Scientific Research, by DragonGod:

  1. Create a LaTeX document summarizing your preliminary ideas
  2. Share it on LessWrong for feedback
  3. Create more LaTeX documents
  4. ???
  5. Profit

One one hand, 1) and 2) pretty accurately reflect real research, except you're usually sharing with your advisor/peers/etc. On the other hand, they're the easy part :-)

1DragonGod
This is technically true, but I'm writing papers on how to do research (as opposed to conducting the research itself), so I don't see a problem with it?