Hi qual folks,
Now here has been interesting questions and talk about basic
question. It seems that there is an essential difference between
qualitavite analysis (QA) and content analysis (CA). They both can be
computer aided but still their diffrence remains. In CA you are
describing the text material empirically and in QA you are
interpreting it. In previous the statistical features among and
betveen accounted occurrences are important - like in any empirical
study. In latter the interpretation can be quite independent from the
empirico-statistical features of the text material. Did you
mean this, Harald?
The most important problem for me here is that after all you cannot
(usually) make that straight through division: In QA you have to back
your interpretations by statistical features and in CA you have to
have a pre-interpretation about your material. Of course the order
how you are proceeding can differ and thesee approaches feel
different. But is this division fruitful? Is it possible to make a
non interpretative analysis of the _content_ of the text? Or non
statistical interpretation? And what is the role of the computer here
between me as an interpreter and the text as interpreted?
How programs differ in this direction? Questions, questions...
just a thought...
esa
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