It's been awhile and last year was rough. The summer was full of transitions - new job, new home, new state, new places to do things, etc. I have been working on some conference submission abstracts and noted a trend - perhaps more prevalent in health research than in the general social sciences - toward assuming that everything is going to be experimental and expressed quantitatively. In fact, I am still puzzling through how to submit a qualitative exploratory research abstract for one such opportunity, given that everything about the description presumed quan/stats. Hence my title - inspired by a clip of the new Muppet show in which Fozzie bear accuses some people of 'specism' or the like. I hope I am not a quantist myself. Unfortunately, as demonstrated by the two photos of books separately shelved in my office, I am at least guilty of segregating my qual and quan methods books. (Note that I have placed the mixed books with the qual books - suggesting perhaps that I consider qual the more flexible, accepting, tolerant method.)
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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