Using quantitative accounts in my qualitative study: does it necessitate hypothesis formulation at the beginning of the study

[nadiaa]

dear all,

The primary data of my qualitative study consist in a video record I analyse using CA. If I provide descriptive frequency account of a recurrent phenomenon (that i noticed when writing the transcript, i.e., emerged from the data itself) under the form of numerical data , am I obliged to formulate, at the begining of the study, hypotheses about the coded categories  identified in the frequency accounts?

YOUR ANSWERS WILL BE VERY HELPFUL.

NK

 

[Jeremy Miles]

No.

 

Lots of interesting quantitative information comes without a hypothesis test.  Examples from my own area(s) of research:

 

What proportion of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans have mental health problems.

What percentage of middle school kids drink alcohol regularly.

 

No hypothesis there, but knowing the results is interesting.

 

 

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