Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Quantitative Research

One of the differences between many European and North American doctoral programs is the need to take a suite of courses - some of which may be outside of your research focus. By training and experience I am a qualitative researcher - my work in linguistics and anthropology have focused on communities and interviews. This semester I am being stretched/challenged by taking a required course in quantitative research methodology. I know it will make me a more rounded researcher, but it is a struggle in places.

If nothing else it has inspired a couple of pictures - one that features SPSS (the software we are using) as onomatopoeia and the other chronicling my transition into a Tolkienian gollum ....




Migwec,
Ehkosit!











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