April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
DOI: 10.4324/9781003377986-35
Data interpretation can be a complex and confusing part of the research process, largely because it is difficult to identify a precise set of processes that underlies it, as well as to follow a specific set of steps to achieve it. Even the language that qualitative researchers frequently use to describe interpretation lacks precision and clarity. Many researchers, for example, use the phrase ‘the findings emerged’ to describe interpretation, a phrase that seems to intimate an almost magical process rather than to describe what actually happens during interpretation. On the other hand, the phrase also seems simple and straightforward, almost as if by leaving data ...
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