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Exploring Qualitatively-Derived Concepts: Inductive—Deductive Pitfalls
2002
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
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Analytic induction is a sacred tenet of qualitative inquiry.1 Therefore, when one begins a project focusing on concept of interest (rather than allowing the concepts to emerge from the data per se), how does one maintain a valid approach? When commencing inquiry with a chosen concept or phenomena of interest, rather than with a question from the data per se about what is going on, how does one control deductive tendencies to see what one desires to see and which threaten validity?
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