Reading list:

Paul Lichterman (2021): “Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-021-09499-8

#Sociology #qualitativeresearch #Methodology

Hello sciences.social! I work on social policy and programme evaluations, primarily RCTs and quasi-experiments, at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) in London, UK.

#introduction #evaluation #ProgramEvaluation #PolicyEvaluation #SocialScience #ProgrammeEvaluation #CausalInference #RStats #DAGs #methodology #RCT #QuasiExperiment

BBC News - UK scientists tackle the taboo subject of periods in polar research
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66659741

Certainly, menstrual freedom should extend to all areas of Earth, but especially extreme and pristine environments like the Artics. However, as important as this issue is, every stakeholder in the #scientificResearch pipeline should be as, if not more, concerned about #SexualHarassment. If #scientificResearch methodology concerns itself with strict avoidance of the smallest chance of #unconciousbias, then that same #methodology should concern itself with the freedoms of all practitioners in the environment in which #science operates, no? #SexualHarassment should not be tollerated anywhere, and the Artics are no exception. If you can't be responsible for your libido without being a #letcher, then you shouldn't go to the Artics. You should go to #therapy.

Yet another argument for more #female lead scientists and administrators. #Scientists, as the educated elite, should be setting an example for others!

What should I read? What are some recent books in #politicalscience, #sociolegal studies, #politicaltheory, #methodology, or #philosophyofsocialscience that one shouldn't miss, that everyone will be citing in a few years?

After a year of exploring the pitfalls of language, #logic and #methodology I came back to #SusanHaack 's witty 2019 paper "Post “Post-Truth”: Are We There Yet?". It's not without irony, as this poem, printed in her book, shows:

"if you get to go home at night, it's participant observation, and if you don't, it's ethnography" (Luker 2008: 156)

#Ethnography #Methodology

It looks like the Japanese 5S methodology basically says to put your kids (and their stepladders) into storage for a tidy house.

This seems perfectly cromulent to me!

#Japan #Methodology #Inspiration #Organization #SelfHelp #Advice #KidsNeedStepLadders #Ridiculous #Clickbait #Journalism

"From a critical realist perspective, rigour and validity come from researcher reflexivity" (p. 378)

Tom Fryer (2022) A critical realist approach to thematic analysis: producing causal explanations, Journal of Critical Realism, 21:4, 365-384, DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2022.2076776

#CriticalRealism #NVivo #Methodology #ResearchDesign #Causality #QualitativeResearch

The purpose of a literature review is to develop sharper and more insightful research questions, not to survey *all* that is known on a given topic (Yin 2018: 13)

#methodology #research #commodon #literaturereview

The purpose of a literature review is to develop sharper and more insightful research questions, not to survey *all* that is known on a given topic (Yin 2018: 13)

#methodology #research #commodon #literaturereview

And in relating to my new studies in science and math, here's something I didn't know (and is super interesting):

Scientific American: Where’s Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Him Without Revealing Where He Is
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wheres-waldo-how-to-prove-you-found-him-without-revealing-where-he-is/

#science #math #methodology

Online now the resources I produced for #NMRC on Latent Class #analysis. #latent_class #LCA #stats #statistics #research_methods #methodology https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/all/?id=20806

Alright, there is much #buzz over #AI in #edtech. While I embrace what #LLMs offer, why are so many people going mad over the topic? I mean, I'm not a grandmaster in the #education field (I've been doing it for 15 yrs "only") & am pro #innovation, but what's wrong with using less tech?

Tech should be integrated to a degree & definitely taught about, but beyond that it will mostly get in the way. Effective #teaching has less to do with tech & all to do with #methodology.

#edutooters @edutooter

hangover helper.

#ACV #methodology

Board games researchers are asked to specify what types of games they are studying, video games get a leeway. They get by even without specifying method's scope. For example, digital games research methods like think-aloud protocols are horribly unsuitable for the board games. Strategies are revealed. Heck, they are also unsuitable for analysing two players video games. Why is no clarification being made about the exact type of games they are studying? #boardgames #researchdata #methodology

Have you ever heard the term “quantitative ethnography”? #academia #methodology #commodon #anthropology

Question about study, experimentation, methodology:

What if you can't generalize across an entire population? I'm wondering if categorizing populations can confound insight because there might be important differences between subpopulations that get homogenized and washed out.

#Science #statistic #methodology

I'm putting together an annotated bibliography on how to respectfully engage with marginalized populations in public health research. I'm particularly interested in learning how to approach populations who self-identify as #Indigenous, #lgbtq, #disabled, and/or #homeless. If any worthwhile resources spring to mind, I'd be grateful if you could point me at them.

#engagement #methodology #publichealth #FirstNations #Métis #Aboriginal

"On #planet #earth every two weeks another #language dies, no more #people are speaking it. (...) Maybe I'm from the #Amazon and my habitat is cut down and I loose my #culture. (...) In two weeks (...) for two groups of people around the #world, for two cultures, that means the death of their language, the death of their #methodology, their #history, their #folklore, their understanding of the world."

"Breaking the language barrier"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs

#TimDoner at #TEDxTeen
(from 2014)

Lecturing PhD students in Migration Studies fills me with pride The #methodology is at the heart of academic research. Registrations open ➡️ https://forms.gle/GTNa1zZtZHc1eAuG8 #migration #migrationstudies