Birrell Walsh:
> I remember in particular when I realized that the idea of "opening
> doors" was a central metaphor for one of the people I was interviewing.
> I made up a code for 'opening doors,' and auto-coded on "open*" and
> "door*". Then I went through all the quotations this auto-coding had
> found, tossing out the mis-matches and keeping the ones that were an
> example of the metaphor. In ten minutes I had confirmed the importance
> of the metaphor in this woman's discourse.
Thanks! This is a clear example of how QDA helped you. Some would have
problems with the concept of "confirmation" but the point is well taken.
Other people have interesting experiences to share about the use of QDAS
in relation to "a priori" and/or "a posteriori" ideas about the data?
Some people just use QDAS for retrieval of details in long texts. Does it
qualify as QDA to most of you?
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