Quotes About Methodology

Researchers who pick too small a sample leave themselves at the mercy of sampling luck.

Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

I think a lot of the shame-based religious and political methodology has more to do with keeping people contained than with setting them free. And I'm no fan of it.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

The idea that trading success is tied to finding some specific ideal approach is misguided. There is no single correct methodology.

Metaphysical naturalism is not metaphysically neutral regarding teleology. Not content with an empirically based methodology, it mandates the restriction of reality to that which is material. By definition, empirical science is characterized by methodological naturalism, but once it begins propounding metaphysical naturalism, it has overstepped its disciplinary boundaries.

And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

Indeed, methodology matters more than anything else.

how individuals explore nature—how one does science. And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

principios básicos del método Esalen de programación, consistentes en «desmenuzarlo todo y reconstruir de nuevo».

you will see this framework at work when ethnographers employ both quantitative (e.g., surveys) and qualitative data collection (LeCompte & Schensul, 1999) and when case study researchers use both quantitative and qualitative data (Luck, Jackson, & Usher, 2006; Yin, 2009).

quasi-experimental

A heuristic we follow is that whenever we feel the need to comment something, we write a method instead.

A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.

The goal of discipleship—giving someone the assistance needed to be conformed into the character image of Christ—will never change, but the methodology will and must.

This book will show you the benefit of applying a completely different perspective to advance your career. We are looking at criminal environments to derive the influencing methodology and strategy, from psychopaths or criminal profilers.

As we make disciples and mobilize God's people for mission, the methodology we use must be congruent with the way of Jesus. We need to learn how to do family on mission.

why should we acquiesce in letting philosophical naturalists prescribe the definition of science itself? The only reason for restricting science to methodological naturalism is if we assume from the outset that philosophical naturalism is true—that nature is a closed system of cause and effect. But if it is not true, then restricting science to naturalistic theories is not a good strategy for getting at the truth.47

A focus on one method above all others is a kind of fetish. These cases suggest that some of the historical examples of "science gone awry" arose from what I designate methodological fetishism. These are situations where investigators privileged a particular method and ignored or discounted evidence obtained by other methods, which, if heeded, could have changed their minds.

As a "Rule of Thumb", Psychologists use 95% certainty as being acceptable. They allow a 5% chance of being wrong. If possible, they prefer 99% certainty, i.e. only 1% chance of being wrong. This is why Psychological research is usually expressed statistically….

I am a woman committed to a politics of transliteration, the methodology of a mind stunned at the suddenly possible shifts of meaning - for which like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must find words or burn.

What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.