“The view attributed to positivism, that reality is fragmented into variables, is a straw man. No one believes it, and classification into types is something that all researchers, both quantitative and qualitative, do. Variables are a product of measurement procedures; they are not part of the structure of reality.”
Paley, J., & Lilford, R. (2011). Qualitative methods: An alternative view. BMJ, 342, d424.
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2024, August 5). Variables [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/variables/
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