Sam Ladner > Quotes

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. The Matrix, 1999”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Hammersley (2014) suggests that qualitative researchers aim to describe causation in one of two ways: 1. Create plausible models of causation using imaginative tools like metaphors literary devices, and thought experiments to explain how a thing might work in many different contexts, in abstract language 2. Conduct a deep analysis of observed, empirical data to generate”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Mario Luis Small’s excellent summary”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Help your stakeholders sharpen their deductive questions into falsifiable statements, which can then be proven true or false.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Describe the workarounds they employ to complete certain tasks. Lay bare their thoughts, dreams, motivations and hidden beliefs that explain why they are not making so-called rational choices.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“estimate how long it might take to answer each question, and it will quickly become clear how much of a backlog of work”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“unconsciously held objectivist ontology. If they stop focusing solely on scale and causation, and focus instead on coherence and customers, they begin to feel better equipped to make decisions about their products or services. However, most people are simply unaware that there is a qualitative, inductive logic that is just as legitimate as a quantitative, deductive method.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“other words, some falsely believe that ethnography can provide coherence and participant focus but cannot provide scale or causation.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“continually draw stakeholders’ attention back to that shared understanding by using the artifact as a touchstone. As”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“being wrong is not grounds for dismissal, but the natural outcome of trying new things.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“In the research design phase of the project, your fundamental goal is set yourself up to make analysis and reporting as straightforward as possible.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“How To Conduct A Mixed Methods Study,” which I draw from heavily (Small, 2011),”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Social Infrastructure: Preparing Teams for Mixed Methods”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“qual and quant researchers provide all the benefits of their primary approach, plus some of the benefits of their secondary approach, stakeholders will become sophisticated customers of research, and the entire organization will become more attuned to both the objectivist”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Project Kick-off and Framing”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“quantitative research will measure pervasiveness of things we already know, and qualitative research will uncover things we don’t know much about.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“You can see how this inductive approach is squarely focused on the participants themselves. In your inductive study,”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“The typical practical reasons why you might choose to mix methods include: 1. Time does not permit in-depth qualitative research 2. Time does not permit in-depth quantitative research 3. Negotiating access to participants is challenging 4. Finding a large data set is challenging”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“the becoming story, cognitions are almost equally likely to send ties [to other story elements] as to receive them [from other story elements], while in the being story, cognitions are almost always the consequence of a prior element. Substantively, this reveals that cognitions play a crucial role in motivating the narrative of becoming… Being a Nazi induces the absence of self-reflexivity (Bearman”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Framing Your Approach: Inductive or Deductive Frame?”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“But at the very least, give them more than boring charts, graphs and numbers. Introduce some character and plot and attempt to paint a holistic picture.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Non-ethnographers may dismiss ethnography altogether, believing it to lack predictive power, which they take to be the sole purpose of research.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“At their core, these two approaches have differing belief systems about how knowledge is created (epistemology) and even more fundamentally, about what is reality itself (ontology). The”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“uncovered 116 unanswered research questions and made sure everyone knew how long that list was.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Mixed methods research is a research design with philosophical assumptions as well as methods of inquiry. As a methodology, it involves philosophical assumptions that guide the direction of the collection and analysis of data and the mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches in many phases of the research process (J. W. Cresswell & Plano Clark, 2007, p. 5).”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Build this social infrastructure by managing stakeholder expectations.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“Having such dry-run experiences will prepare your stakeholders for the reactions they might have,”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“The word empirical simply refers to direct observation, so quant data can be subjective or empirical, and qual data can be either subjective or empirical.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“VUCA organizations move quickly, and often must make decisions with incomplete information.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research

“to place each finding along a spectrum of “useful” to “not useful.” They can also discuss how each finding might make them feel, or what implications it might have.”
― Sam Ladner, Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research