There are no qualitative methods - nor quantitative for that matter: The misleading rhetoric of the qualitative-quantitative argument

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 408-415

  Åsberg, Rodney ^a   Hummerdal, Daniel ^b   Dekker, Sidney ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Mines ParisTech   (France)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Epistemology; Method; Ontology; Qualitative; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960693549     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464536X.2011.559292     Document Type: Article

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