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*sigh*

One chapter left…🎉🤷‍♂️

Please keep personal opinions out of this book.

Beg to differ on the interpretation of what is the role/definition of regulations.

BLAZE IT

The pain is almost over.

FFS!!! Introduced as part of chapter 13 topics that were wholly part of chapter 11?!?! Putting information from “Cuevas” into the cells for “Melde”?!?!

Are there no adults checking this work?!?!

Actually GIGO started as a programming term

Why include deep dive data and equations in this chapter? Code lines for software packages?

Please

Just

Stop

GREAT EXAMPLE: SAS, SPSS, STATA and Excel discussion.

For the stats pro, SAS. For other limited uses, othered besides Excel. For the basic b!tch use, play with Excel. Unless it is for project management and/or financial analysis, then Excel is great.

PLEASE for the love of mankind STOP talking about quantitative ANYTHING. You don’t know enough about it, your discussion is confusing and/or inaccurate AND you just devolve into “look at tools you can use”.

Seriously

Just

STOP

Chapter 11 done onto Data analysis!

Halfway through 11- Evaluation research is what I thought it was but in more detail

Ch 10 was no fun

Slogging through another chapter…

Chapter 10 ranks as the most awkwardly written chapter in this book. Some useful information but, overall, read like a tech manual at times and went too deep in the “algorithmic weeds”.

Chapter 9 is a good source of information for finding good sources of data. Chapter could have been about 50% shorter without all the specifics about data sources.

SLAYYY

Next on the ER train is validity

TIME FOR SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH!

Just keep reading…

Truly slow progress because life intervenes.

Chapter 6 done! Onto surveys

Experimental research sadly has nothing to do with LSD😢

Qualitative station

Good info continues.

Too much focus on advantages and not enough on disadvantages. Also, deeper thinking on some advantages would lead to additional disadvantages. For example, no transcribing of data from online surveys is counterbalanced by the need to properly define codes (and other important key phrases, etc) prior to release.

Why was there new information not included in the chapter part of the chapter wrap-up?

The chapter gets into the “fuzzy” part about now. It is almost as if the authors don’t have someone to read the chapters and then find a way to strengthen the areas that are not in the authors’ wheelhouse(es).

Also, some of the statements discussing asking follow-on questions in “real time” (my term) seem to contradict earlier statements about keeping to the IRB approved processes.

Author came across as a tad defensive when discussing “…Limitations of Research Using Qualitative Data”. Just the facts, please.

Time to write my paper!

Gotta sleep