You may not like the term, but "qualitative research" is established and in common use in the social sciences and related fields. You can do a library search or visit Amazon.com and find many books with "qualitative research" in the title.
There are, of course, basic research principles applicable to all research, qualitative of otherwise, but the qualitative researcher's concepts of sampling and generalization are somewhat different than those of others. Jerrold H. Zar, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences Northern Illinois University DeKalb IL 60115-2854 =============================== >>> dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/22/03 09:06AM >>> first point ... one is not a qualitative researcher ... either you are a researcher or not a researcher =================== . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
