[Interpretationandmethods] Interpretationandmethods Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1

[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]

Can't resist:

When I do this sort of thing I like the large-n stats person to go  
first, or I teach the large-n stuff first, because so many people find  
it off-putting and difficult to square with their intuitions about  
things. Then they're primed for the funkier stuff I'll introduce later  
on ;-)

PTJ

On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:18 PM, psshea at csbs.utah.edu wrote:

> Patrick will not post again :) but I do have a response.  Yes, I agree
> that "prospecting" is dualist.
>
> I kind of liked being first in the sense that I "set the agenda" for
> the students and they did not "come to me" with a prior sense that
> ONLY variables-based quantitative research could be scientific.  I
> think they were then more "critical" of the next very traditional  
> prof.
>
> Peri
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Patrick Thaddeus Jackson <patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:41 PM, psshea at csbs.utah.edu wrote:
>>
>>> Whether that metaphor is apt can be debated, but it can help
>>> variables-researchers (PTJ - does that get me around the
>>> realist/positivist labels?) to get some sense of why not everything
>>> can (or should) be spelled out in interpretive/relational research
>>> proposals.
>>
>>
>> It does, but of course "prospecting" is still dualist: digging around
>> for something that is presumably already out there, hidden beneath  
>> the
>> ground, just waiting for us to stumble upon it.
>>
>> It's too bad that your course is doing "qualitative"/interpretive
>> first and "quantitative"/large-n second. That format allows the  
>> second
>> half of the course to turn to the first half and say "thanks for
>> providing us with the raw data, we'll take it from here." Very David
>> Laitin-esque faux methodological diversity, where everyone gets to
>> play as long as they all play the same game in the end.
>>
>> Okay, this is seriously the last thing I am going to post on the list
>> for a couple of weeks. I mean it.
>>
>> PTJ
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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Director, General Education Program, American University
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Relations and Development
http://profptj.blogspot.com | http://www.kittenboo.com
calendar: http://ical.mac.com/onyxdr/Patrick