Q&A: Qualitative Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods
Question
Does this fall under the "nonsense sciences" and have no value in your eyes, or do they actually contain truth and serve as a reliable research tool?
Answer
I don’t think it’s worthless, but it’s definitely not science. Incidentally, that is also true of all the nonsense sciences. There are things of value there too, but the scientific pretension is unjustified.
In a certain sense, qualitative research is at least honest in that it gives up the scientific pretension and acknowledges reality.
Discussion on Answer
Not at all. At least not in their view. See, for example, on Wikipedia: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99
Search the site; there are references to this in several places.
Who draws conclusions from qualitative research? As I understand it, in my limited understanding, qualitative research is meant to generate hypotheses and spark ideas that would later be subjected to ordinary statistical empirical testing (although I understand that the attempt to apply that in certain fields is precisely what gets labeled here with the charming adjective "nonsense").
Could you please point me to a place where the reasoned critique of those fields was presented?