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Discuss the significance of reliability and validity in relation to qualitative methods.
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Discuss the significance of reliability and validity in relation to qualitative methods. This essay will provide an insight into the long running debate over the significance of reliability and validity in relation to qualitative methods. This debate has sparked many questions over the years. These include; why are reliability and validity such an issue in the first place? Are they both as significant as each other? What would happen if they did not exist? The answers to these questions provide an insight into the wider question of 'how significant are reliability and validity in qualitative methods? Many researchers have attempted to provide answers to such questions resulting in a battle of survival of the fittest! Before discussing the questions it seems fitting to give a brief account of the wider debate between quantitative and qualitative methods. This is relevant as it should explain why reliability and validity have become such an...
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