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Hi Fil, Am I reading your asterisk incorrectly? You think ONLY statistics are ‘robust and reliable’? Can you say why? I am not referring to a court of law now, but research. cheers, teena > > Couple of things: > 1. It seems to me that the *only* way (that we know of currently) to ensure > that data (be it quantitative or qualitative, and regardless of how it was > collected/analyzed/etc) is robust and reliable is through appropriate > statistical analysis. > 2. First hand accounts are, perhaps, not as robust as one might wish they > were. See, for instance: > http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/28/end-eyewitness-testimonies-285414.html, > http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/eyewitness.aspx, and > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------