Quantitative research as an interpretive enterprise: The mostly unacknowledged role of interpretation in research efforts and suggestions for explicitly interpretive quantitative investigations

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 189-211

  Westerman, Michael A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hermeneutics; Interpretation; Measurement; Practices; Qualitative research; Quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846581011     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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