Respondent or member validation - a process whereby researchers provide the people on whom they have conducted research with an account of their findings | |
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respondent validation may occasion defensive reactions and even censorship on the part of research participants | researchers provide each research participant with an account of what they have said to the researcher in interviews and conversations or of observations of participants in observational studies |
it is highly questionable whether research participants can validate a researcher's analysis, since this entails inferences being made for an audience of social science peers.
6Validity applicability in qualitative research is an issue! 5 - reliability and validity of qualitative research Dr | Entails using more than one method or source of data in the study of social phenomena |
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