tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693149471158980929.post8091653475987589947..comments2009-03-29T08:49:48.146-07:00Comments on Circumfered: Ethnography Notes (or, blunt title, blunt blog)Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17730595628803159763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693149471158980929.post-30889582557620553712009-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:002009-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:00Why "blunt title, blunt blog"?BTW, like the way yo...Why "blunt title, blunt blog"?<BR/><BR/>BTW, like the way you distilled things here, but you need to consider a bit more the triangulation techniques used for data collection and analysis in the studies. That's key for ethnographies.Tharon Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17604308672862254537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693149471158980929.post-27693351462520723862009-03-02T12:37:00.000-08:002009-03-02T12:37:00.000-08:00This week had some interesting contrasts among stu...This week had some interesting contrasts among studies. One of my main questions seems to be how to determine reliability. You mention that reliability can be determined from the selection of the environment - where a good setting is representative of a number of other environments. I am not agreeing or disagreeing because I frankly do not know. Beaufort states that “it is not possible to measure reliability in ethnography” (194). This is the most explicit statement that I could find in our readings, and so I have to assume that either the researchers decided not to address it, or as with your statement, determined they were being as reliable as possible under the circumstances by putting thought into their setting selection. However, I just do not know how it can be measured. Our other studies have either illustrated the fallacy of how they instituted reliability/validity or not, and in these particular studies, it seems to be more a feeling, as measured against prior ethnographies, than true science. And yet, does that make it any less scientific? It is hard to use reliability in a study such as Ellis, where her emotions and senses are the main modes of collection, and the data is analyzed using frames of reference. Yet the study is interesting and does make a contribution. I will have to wait for class to hear how we evaluate the study.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15032349508396021975noreply@blogger.com