I think you’re more likely to make simple mistakes or do very naive analysis if you haven’t studied best practices. After doing an MA in Public Policy I spot a lot of mistakes that I wouldn’t have before.
I think this holds true in more traditionally “quantitative” fields, too, because often things can be useful or not depending on how they are framed such that without the proper framing good numbers don’t matter because they are measuring the right thing.
This seems to suggest that a lot of what makes quantitative research successful also makes qualitative research successful, and so we should expect any extent to which expertise matters in quantitative fields to matter in qualitative fields (although I think this mostly points at the quant/qual distinction being a very fuzzy one that is only relevant along certain dimensions).
I think you’re more likely to make simple mistakes or do very naive analysis if you haven’t studied best practices. After doing an MA in Public Policy I spot a lot of mistakes that I wouldn’t have before.
I think this holds true in more traditionally “quantitative” fields, too, because often things can be useful or not depending on how they are framed such that without the proper framing good numbers don’t matter because they are measuring the right thing.
This seems to suggest that a lot of what makes quantitative research successful also makes qualitative research successful, and so we should expect any extent to which expertise matters in quantitative fields to matter in qualitative fields (although I think this mostly points at the quant/qual distinction being a very fuzzy one that is only relevant along certain dimensions).