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Title: What do Quantitative Researchers Want from Qualitative Research? (or at least what does one quantitative researcher want)


1
What do Quantitative Researchers Want from
Qualitative Research?(or at least what does one
quantitative researcher want)
  • Robert M. Groves
  • University of Michigan and
  • Joint Program in Survey Methodology USA

2
Inside the Quantitative-side of the Heads of
Researchers
  • An inferential population
  • A target process of inquiry
  • A sampling process
  • A fixed measurement process

3
Notions of Quality from the Quantitative Side
  • Variance
  • Conceptual realizations of the measurement
    process
  • Includes
  • Sample
  • Interviewers
  • Items used
  • Bias
  • Systematic features of the measurement

4
Representation
Measurement
Inferential Population
Construct
Target Population
Validity
Coverage Error
Measurement
Sampling Frame
Measurement Error
Sampling Error
Response
Sample
Nonresponse Error
Processing Error
Respondents
Edited Data
Survey Statistic
5
Given this, Whats Missing that the Quantitative
Side of the Brain Wants?
  • Flexibility of observation surprises
    measurement of the unexpected
  • The pre-structured nature of most quantitative
    data suppresses chances of observing the
    unexpected
  • The open question has gradually withered away
    from practice
  • Interviewer observations are standardized

6
Given this, Whats Missing that the Quantitative
Side of the Brain Wants? (contd)
  • Contextual sensitivity interpersonal behaviors
  • Quantitative measures often fail to capture among
    person interaction
  • Ethnographies, especially, add cross-time
    observation to the interpersonal

7
Given this, Whats Missing that the Quantitative
Side of the Brain Wants? (contd)
  • Trust-based measurement Possibility of
    measurement of the unintended the
    normally-hidden the subconscious
  • When the researcher becomes a trusted group
    member
  • Respondent-centered measurement of what is
    central to them, in their own terms
  • Avoiding the imposition of the researchers
    framework

8
What This Could Give the Quantitative
Measurement/Analysis?
  • Agreement/disagreement with findings
  • Alternative explanations for empirical findings
  • Interaction hypotheses
  • Multilevel hypotheses context impacts
  • Reaction to structured measurement
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