Hi Rowland,
I have a number of reservations towards this term, not least that it means
having to justify once again the qual approach,
I would be interested to know where you came across haphazard sampling
Heather
Heather Robson
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School of Information Studies
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
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From: Rowland Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: Haphazard sampling
>
> Hi all
> I was wondering if anyone else has reservations about the use of the term
> haphazard sampling to describe sampling strategies used in qualitative
> reserach. It strikes me that even if one is sympathetic with the idea that
> qual strategies are not respresentative (which I am) the last thing that
> they are is haphazard - is this a form of epistemological superority? All
> qual research has to carefully plan and uncover key actors and contacts to
> generate data which makes the term seem something of a hangover from a
time
> when quant methods were seen as having all the answers.
>
> Im intersted in what others think,
>
> cheers
>
> Rowland
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