NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/bit/listserv/qualrsl/2089

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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:06:07 CST
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Subject:      Re: Coding in qualitative analysis
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The question of validation or response from interviewees after the
researcher has analyzed the interviews is an interesting one. Perhaps the
research questions being asked have some bearing on whether this is a
useful exercise. If we are interested in the interviewee's notions of what
something means, then we may want to check and make sure we have reported
it accurately. On the other hand, if we are doing a study that looks for
patterns in what the interviewee has stated, that compares aggregate kinds
of themes or patterns from several interviewees or that analyzes the
interview for the process rather than factual content, the interviewee may
not  have more to add. If we introduce the question of whether it would be
helpful to the interviewee to hear the results of the study, that seems to
me to be a different issue altogether from a consideration of methods of
arriving closer to an understanding of answers to a research question.

Nora L. Ishibashi
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