"Positionality statements offer a broader conception than conflicts of interest of how researchers’ own perspectives may shape their research findings. There is a lack of evidence on whether such statements are effective in reducing bias in research findings and on how they are used in interpretation of findings (15)."
Tell me without saying that you don't understand #qualitative research that you don't understand it and only included information on it because reviewer 2 asked about..
Our first textbook is finally on sale! Place orders for physical or digital editions here:
https://www.quirkos.com/learn-qualitative/qualitative-textbook.html?ref=mastodon
RE: https://flipboard.com/@wsj/business-b1985f4jz/-/a-T6_YAnIFSTSuzZdNlac-EA%3Aa%3A248213600-%2F0
“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, #Auru uses thousands of #AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds #demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs, and the results those bots spit out are being used for product #development, #pricing, identifying new customers and political #polling.”
Researchers have warned about the inaccuracies of treating #LLMs as human proxies (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11297-5), but I wouldn’t be surprised #languageModels beat #qualitative interpretation of non-representative focus groups.
#marketing #psychometrics #statistics #quantMethods #philSci #metascience #business
First copies of our qualitative research textbook have arrived! Will be available soon...
This guidebook aims to give an overview of the challenges associated with making qualitative data reusable as well as providing guidance on how reusability can be improved and addressed at all stages of the research data life cycle. The guide includes a set of decision trees (also published separately and available at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18390982) that researchers and data stewards can use to evaluate the options for making qualitative data reusable that are most suited for their projects. This is the third version of the guide which incorporated community feedback and extended the available information. The guide now includes a section on preregistration of qualitative data and ethical aspects including the CARE principles.
11 journal articles from 2025 that show the breadth and depth of qualitative research. Our annual roundup of qualitative research projects that used Quirkos is here!
It's been another brilliant year for Quirkos! We released our latest offline version, Quirkos 3, which brings the offline desktop version of Quirkos in line with all the interface updates and new features from Quirkos Web. This has provided a much more simple foundation to build on future releases, so
Excited to be sponsoring the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) annual conference this week!
If you write an autoethnogaphy with someone else, that's "Collaborative Autoethnography".
Here's a slide show I prepared based on the book by Chang, Ngunjiri, and Hernandez (2013). This will introduce you to a range of models for completing an autoethnography with collaborators.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hv7JNoweMu2YNGRiL9bzjkNCoo8a8OstM9DEyrSePmY/edit?usp=sharing
Esther Plomp
Quirkos Software
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
Ricarda Braukmann
Alexander Gerber
Yaqub. M
T. T. Perry