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39 Biologist Bernd Heinrich (1984, pp. 141 151) and his associates once spent a summer conducting detailed, systematic research on ant lions, small insects that trap ants in pits they have dug. Returning to the university in the fall, Heinrich was surprised to dis-cover that his results were quite different from those published by other researchers. Redoing his experiments the following summer to try to understand these discrepan-cies, Heinrich found that he and his fellow researchers had been led astray by an unex-amined assumption they had made about the ant lions time frame: Their observations hadn t been long enough to detect some key aspects of these insects behavior. As he concluded, Even carefully collected results can be misleading if the underlying context of assumptions is wrong (p.)
40 QualITaTIve ReseaRch DesIGn conclusions. It also helps you justify your research, something I discuss in more detail in Chapter 7. In this chapter, I discuss the …
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3 Research design and methodology, RESEARCH DESIGN, QUALITATIVE, INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING, Research, Qualitative Research, CONCEPTUAL, Descriptive and interpretive approaches to qualitative, Descriptive and interpretive approaches to qualitative research, RESEARCH DESIGN Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods, BRIDGING THE QUALITATIVE–QUANTITATIVE DIVIDE, Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research, PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION