Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

There are scholarly reasons, as others have noted, for sharing the data we collect from human subjects. Others may be able to build on our work, and knowledge thus accumulate more quickly. It may provide disincentives against misrepresenting evidence. In addition, funding bodies are increasingly req...

I concur with the constructive spirit of many of the contributions to this forum, especially those which have focused on identifying ways in which researchers can be more explicit about their research design and methods. Providing explicit and thorough discussions of research design and procedures (...

Like some others who have already expressed themselves in this forum, I worry that publishing interview transcripts or recordings may put our “human subjects” at risk in certain cases. While some topics are unlikely to be sufficiently controversial to cause problems, other topics are likely to be se...