Thursday, 18 October 2018
From Quantitative to Qualitative - How it's done by Sleight of Hand
When a psychology experiment ceases to be all clipboards and numerical data because it strays into the unquantifiable human the researchers tell us that they have started using "qualitative" methods rather than quantitative which means asking people questions n'shit and listening to their answers (however deceitful and unreliable those answers might be). Po-faced, they insist this is still oh so "scientific" not noticing that the moment they made this segue to a different method they were admitting that the science had ended and the guesswork had begun. They have to do this because, otherwise, they'd lose their priestly status as scientists and we'd all thumb our noses at them......
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