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- From: cids05@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Dr Stephen K Tagg)
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- Subject: Re: Re: Coding in qualitative analysis
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.113241.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:32:41 GMT
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- I believe your discussions may be helped by a little application of the
- logic behind some of the grander theories in scaling and testing..
- (facet theory and generalizability theory fyi)
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- I believe any research is an overlap of a series of samples (purposive sample
- not statistical) of various "universes of content"
- Including:
- Informants
- Things researchers might ask informants to do (including answer quest)
- Ways that researchers get informants to inform
- meanings for informants
- meanings for researchers
- meanings for the market for research publication
- I don't think it is possible for the sampling of each universe to be perfect
- (ie there's reliability/validity issues): effectively there are cost/benefit
- optimizations to make. Unfortunately a lot of research design consists of
- <<lets re-do famous-article's research except tweaking this attribute>>
- and so the whole body of research has no chance of being representative of the
- universes of interest because previous researcher's purposive sampling
- compromises are perpetuated..
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- Trouble is no one has the resources to design an ideal coding system first
- time; but can we be sure that research as a whole is moving in that direction
- or is it in danger (like '60s abnormal/socal psychology) of gaining momentum in
- a search that isn't going in the right direction.
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- Dr Stephen K Tagg
- Bsc in Psychology, PhD in Architecture Lecturer, Department of Marketing IT &
- Stats for Marketing, Consumer Research Univ of Strathclyde, GLASGOW
- Mental Maps, Multidimensional Scaling, CSCW G4 0RQ, SCOTLAND Tel
- 041-552-4400x2409 Fax 552 2802 Email s.k.tagg@uk.ac.strath
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