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Record W1598667619 · doi:10.1177/160940691101000101

Divining for Water: Considerations for Methodology

2011· article· en· W1598667619 on OpenAlexaff
Kerstin Roger, Leslie Penner

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConceptualizationGatekeepingGrounded theoryQualitative researchProcess (computing)PopulationField (mathematics)Engineering ethicsPsychologyManagement scienceSociologyComputer scienceSocial sciencePolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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The authors explore the steps between conceptualizing a qualitative study based on Charmaz's definition of grounded theory and carrying it out in the field. We reflect on how the reality of the vulnerable population to be studied (individuals living with a condition that involves neurological decline) required us to shift our original conceptualization, not only of the research question but of the recruitment and interview process as well. Other factors such as organizational gatekeeping, clinical procedures, university regulations as well as recruitment strategies are discussed. The authors reflect on the study of persons who are living with chronic conditions and end-of-life realities for whom research is not considered a priority. We discuss the sequential steps that had been envisioned for the study and the real -world conditions that required revisions to conduct the study. Recommendations emerge that will assist students and researchers alike when studying a similar vulnerable population.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.134
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.098
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.314
Threshold uncertainty score0.910

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1340.098
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.970
GPT teacher head0.783
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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