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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:11:40 CST
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- From: George Balch <U08812@UICVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Psychology Journals
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:59:50 PST from <HJDM@PSUORVM>
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- David asks whether efforts to get one's qualitative work published in journals
- which usually publish only quantitative work might be considered pandering or
- prostitution. My view is that efforts to make genuine contributions to a
- discipline, particularly to open that discipline up to sources of ideas to
- which it has been closed, are highly valuable. A journal which is so caught
- up in a method that it rejects relevant findings based on other methods has
- already prostituted itself. What are we doing if we let them get away with it?
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- Of course, we should not violate intellectual integrity vis-a-vis our findings
- or methods. Positioning an article diplomatically, however, does not violate
- intellectual integrity. Avoiding needless confrontations over epistemological
- ideology in order to get serious attention strikes me as well worth it.
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- So, David, any tips you have would be a service to me, to other qualitative
- researchers, and to quantitative researchers who might never otherwise see
- some of our findings or theorizing. What do you suggest, David?
-
- George Balch
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