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Qualitative research, like all scientific research, consists of comparing ideas with observations. In good research, the ideas are thereby changed-strengthened, weakened, qualified, or elaborated. Criteria for evaluating qualitative research focus both on the process and on the product-that is, on the research methods that are used and on the changed ideas themselves (the interpretation).
William B. Stiles (Mon,) studied this question.