Qualitative

Question 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of qualitative?

Answer 1

Advantages:
-focus on the real world and real patients
-High level of detail and context
-Can capture and explain experiences and understandings
Disadvantages:
-loss of ‘audibility’ (need to trust researchers)
-Cannot predict causations or outcomes
-Generlisable only with caution

Question 2

What is the iterative method?

Answer 2

It is repeating cycles of data collection until the data pool is saturated

Question 3

What bias is qualitative research open to?

Answer 3

Information bias due to the nature that researchers collect the data. This requires researchers to be reflexive.

Question 4

What is a type 1 error in interpretation?

Answer 4

Finding something that is not there e.g. social pressures on participants to give positive answers
or picking quotes to support a hypothesis

Question 5

What is a type 2 error?

Answer 5

Ignoring someting that is there e.g. overly simplifying the data etc.