 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2011 - 224 str.
...Albert Hunter's book Multimethod Research: A Synthesis of Styles (1989, 16-17). They write: [SJocial science methods should not be treated as mutually exclusive alternatives among which we must choose and then passively pay the costs of our choices. Our individual methods may be flawed but the flaws... | |
 | Abbas Tashakkori, Charles Teddlie - 1998 - 204 str.
...Hunter (1989) described monomethod designs as "a diversity of imperfection" in the following quote: Social science methods should not be treated as mutually...fortunately the flaws are not identical. A diversity of imperfection allows us to combine methods ... to compensate for their particular faults and imperfections,... | |
 | John Brewer, Albert Hunter - 2006 - 244 str.
...the individual weaknesses of our methods has led many researchers to reach a different conclusion: Social science methods should not be treated as mutually...exclusive alternatives among which we must choose and then passively pay the costs of our choices. Our individual methods might be flawed, but fortunately... | |
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To some critical consumers of social research, the admission that our methods are fallible may seem to "prove" the ultimate futility of empirical social science. However, growing knowledge of the individual weaknesses of our methods has led many researchers... 