Research is the step to be done after you have learned properly. I don't think a newbie to do their own research in the early of learning. Let a newbie spend their time reading some articles, posts/threads in the forum, or other sources. Thinking about doing research will be done for the next step, it is when they already have enough knowledge.
Of course, we don't rely on other people for the research. Just believe in our ability, we must know how to do research if we already learned properly. I have experienced many times about following others' research, most of them end with an unsatisfied result. Although they are experienced people, they can make a mistake in doing research.
If you are a newbie then you wouldn't even know how to do research neither. You could try, but you wouldn't know where to look at neither. That is a very important thing that people are missing out, crypto is vast and the people in it are in millions, if you want to learn more about it then you need to spend time on it as well. Talking with others, finding how successful people do it and many other approach could be the key component here.
I have been in the crypto world for nearly a decade now, it is really getting there, and I still spend months learning what defi is, not because it is hard to know what it is exactly but because I wanted to learn how people approach it, and I made a profit from it. So, do your research but before you do it, if you are a newbie then you should learn how to do a proper research and learn what people think of crypto and the things you want to invest.