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Record W4393278388 · doi:10.5206/ijoh.2024.1.18166

Editorial: Doing Excellent Qualitative Research

2024· editorial· en· W4393278388 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Abe Oudshoorn

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal on Homelessness · 2024
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQualitative researchComputer scienceSociologySocial science

Abstract

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Journal on Homelessness are to the purpose of sharing knowledge to prevent and end homelessness.As such, we publish more than just primary research, we also include a variety of structured reviews, discussion articles that provide reflective content, as well as book reviews.Within research we are open to all methodologies and methods, as long as the content meets the purpose of our journal.As such, as Managing Editor I see a broad spectrum of quantitative and qualitative research.I wanted to offer a brief reflection on why many qualitative research articles fail to advance to publication and what researchers might consider doing to move towards excellence.The terms 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' denote the form of the data.One is generally numbers, the other generally text, although may include things like images, sounds, and other non-numerical data.Declaring one is conducting quantitative research provides no information regarding the actual methodology being followed, the methods of data collection and analysis, and how the findings might be connected to existing knowledge.Therefore, rigorous quantitative research needs: theory, methodology, and method.The same holds true for doing excellent qualitative research, yet I see this more frequently missed for qualitative articles.Specifically, declaring one is doing qualitative research provides little information about one's actual theory or paradigmatic perspective, methodology, and method, it simply informs the reader of the type of data they might expect.Unfortunately, I see often that the term 'qualitative research' is taken to present a (presumed) specific theoretical lens, a specific methodology, and a specific method.We receive many article submissions along the lines of, "This

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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)0.085
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.034
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0850.034
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.000
Open science0.0030.000
Research integrity0.0020.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.217
GPT teacher head0.633
Teacher spread0.416 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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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Published2024
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