We are suggesting that "programs" that portend to "do" qualitative research,
I mean "assist" qualitative analysis come with warning labels.
WARNING: This program package is based on the tenets of Grounded Theory.
Users should be forwarded that indiscriminate use may result in findings
other than those
one intended. However, since qualitative research does not begin with a
hypothesis
you should not have intended any results in the first place.
I would note that prior to the rise of computer packages, these same warnings
were made about using phenomenology versus narrative versus feminist versus
ethnographic versus..... I further apologize for the use of "versus" as this
implies I am of the school which sets one qualitative method against
another....oh, wait I am of that school, nevermind.
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