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A Designer’s Research Manual
Triangulation is the process of combining several
different research methods to illuminate one area of
study—in other words—using several research tools to
examine the same thing. Triangulation is commonly
used by the social sciences and adds credibility to
qualitative research. By incorporating different tactics,
the researcher can overcome issues of validity inherent
with many singular qualitative approaches. The goal
of triangulation is to confi rm the fi ndings of each
individual tactic by focusing on where the collected
information overlaps. This area of overlap, called
convergence, is considered to be the ...