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How not to lie without statistics 1 (2008).
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Powell, Eleanor Neff Duneier, Mitchell Goertz, Gary Hopkins, Dan |
| Abstract | We highlight, and suggest ways to avoid, a large number of common misunderstandings in the literature about best practices in qualitative research. We discuss these issues in four areas: theory and data, qualitative and quantitative strategies, causation and explanation, and selection bias. Some of the misunderstandings involve incendiary debates within our discipline that are readily resolved either directly or with results known in research areas that happen to be unknown to political scientists. Many of these misunderstandings can also be found in quantitative research, often with different names, and some of which can be fixed with reference to ideas better understood in the qualitative methods literature. Our goal is to improve the ability of quantitatively and qualitatively oriented scholars to enjoy the advantages of insights from both areas. Thus, throughout, we attempt to construct specific practical guidelines that can be used to improve actual qualitative research designs, We highlight errors commonly made in qualitative research, and in various qualitative methods literatures. These literatures span political science, other social sciences, and many related nondisciplinary or professional areas. The signposts we erect at these problems, |
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| Publisher Date | 2008-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
