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- Title
Overly ambitious critics and the Medici Effect: a reply to Kampen and Tamás.
- Authors
Brown, Steven; Danielson, Stentor; Exel, Job
- Abstract
The critical audit of Q methodology by Kampen and Tamás contains many errors of fact and understanding-indeed, a resistance to understanding that is compared to the Medicis' stance toward Galileo. Following a brief historical summary of similar ill-advised critiques of Q methodology in the 80 years since its introduction, responses are presented to various of the points raised: on the nature of subjectivity, the universe of subjective communicability (concourse) and samples drawn from it, the role of factor analysis and factor interpretation, the forced Q-sort distribution, the ratio between the number of participants and the number of statements in the Q sample, and sources of researcher bias.
- Subjects
Q technique; FACTOR analysis; SUBJECTIVITY; STATISTICAL sampling; COMMUNICATIVE competence
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 2, p523
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11135-014-0007-x