- Just booked my flight to #NorthernVoice #NV08 or even #NV2008 ! #
- Vancouver is the first stop, with the rest of the people going on to Hong Kong. The world is getting smaller. #
- @Currie Will be great to see you at #NV2008 too! #
- @dmcordell I remember the amount of snow last year. The weather was very deceiving. #
- @kristiewells Obama seems like a nice fellow, but he does not strike anything in me. In some ways, his energy seems somewhat forced. #
- I went to a new moon ceremony tonight. Too much mantra chanting for my likes. #
- Nothing but computer problems again this morning. #
- Philippe de Montebello will be retiring this year as the director of the #Metroplitan Museum of Art. He has been there for 30 years. #
- de Montebello made both the cover of the #NYTimes and the front page of the Arts section of the Times. #
- Under him the museum has become the world-class institution it is now. His shoes and influence on culture will be hard to fill. #
- Finally got MS #Project to work for a project status meeting. Printed a report with one minute to spare. #
- Eating a 12" Veggie Delight from Subway. Filling and somewhat healthy. #
- @RobinYap That will be fun at the gym! #
- About to take a new French class. I always wanted to study at the #FIAF. #
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I heard a great statement today, though I do not recall exactly who said it (I think it was an autoethnographic mailing list I follow), but I have been thinking about this all day:
We don’t analyze qualitative research, we interpret it. Only quantitative data can be analyzed.
That is one of the reasons I am so much fonder of qualitative work–interpretations can be very rich and can be done from a variety of perspectives. After all, how many interpretations have there been of the Bible or Shakespeare or even the Tarot? So much depends on experiences and assumptions, among other factors, that interpretation itself can even be interpreted.
Try doing that with quantitative research!
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