09-09-2008, 11:30 PM
tenuredprof Wrote:Hard copy - not digital - as with many people, my time is simply more valuable that that.
The ordering time is the same.
Quote:A prediction: at some point, RD's dissertation is going to be "recalled" by Union - Ph.D.'s simply do not use a descriptive (survey) research methodology in their dissertation. It's simply a matter of "attention".
Not "descriptive." "Inferential" and "experimental."
The use of a survey does not render the research "descriptive." "Descriptive," when using quantitative analysis, refers to descriptive statistics which, while effective in understanding conditions, do not lend themselves to inferences about populations (paramaters, differences, before-and-after changes, etc.).
The dissertation in question has two distinct weaknesses, but the research methodologies employed and the results obtained are not among them.