[lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why?

bitch at pulpculture.org bitch at pulpculture.org
Sat Apr 7 07:48:42 PDT 2007


At 08:24 AM 4/7/2007, you wrote:


>Yup, of course. But survey research is far from worthless, and it's
>always interesting to ask people what they think, isn't it?

absolutely. it's just when it gets one-sided with the assumption, far more common, that ethnographic research such as in-depth interviews with 40 people or pariticpant-observation studies of a group over time are worthless. In the social science community, it's far more common to make the assumption that the only good, *generalizable* research is the hypothetical-deductive model, upon which statistical survey research with its sampling techniques are based.

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