Saturday 4 January 2014

SCIENCE, METHOD AND LIVING

Conversational analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis — the dilemma does not fit with everyday life.

If "reliability describes how far a particular test, procedure or tool, such as a questionnaire, will produce similar results in different circumstances, assuming nothing else has changed" (Roberts et al 2006: 41), it does not make sense in qualitative paradigm: we know that we can not assume that 'nothing else has changed'.