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- Subject: Re: Advice on reliability
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:19:39 GMT
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- Debbie, unfortunately that is not enough. In the midst of transforming
- the behavioral sciences to affirm alternative methodologies, we much all
- survive in a field which demands evidence of objectivity (regardless of
- how misguided or possible that may or many not be). Most of us have
- chosen to do qual research as an act of integrity. Either because it
- fit the research question or seemed like a more authentic way to
- approach the world. However, in the Behavioral Sciences, sharing insights
- is not valued. The goal is to somehow represent the world in a
- reliable and honest way. To do that, and discover or articulate something
- unexpected, is considered insight.
-
- And to transform the field we must remain within it. To remain in it, we
- must get tenure, to get tenure we must publish. In the field of psychology
- (in the traditional sense) will not make it. We are left to walk both
- sides of the fence without playing the whore to either. Todd.
-