I agree, dennis, that the distinction is not useful. However, whatever the terminology that is used, I think the idea behind "mixed-methods" is important and this is missed in your post.
It points to not merely and experiment, but rather an experiment followed by some in-depth interviews to understand the meaning of the event for the subjects, for example. It is not either an experiment or a case study, but perhaps a case study of a typical subject based on the results of an experiment, etc. As you point out, however, this position could be reached, "by asking good questions" rather than an appeal to quant-qual or "mixed methods". -----Original Message----- From: dennis roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What is "research"? first, i think it is NOT qood ... actually, stifles good conversation amongst researchers ... to call research qualitative OR quantitative research IS research ... what drives research are good questions ... good hunches ... curiosity ... and using good methods what we need to focus on are the questions of interest ... and, then try to use the best methods we can to help us answer these questions ... what you do depends on what your questions are and ... what sorts of things you are looking for ... thus ... mixed methods ... which i do think mainly refers to some quantitative ... some qualitative ... i would ban from use . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
