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maxheld83 / keyneson

A statement concourse (or universe of items for a q-sort) on the economy, part of ->
https://github.com/maxheld83/schumpermas
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concourse cannot be randomly drawn #229

Open maxheld83 opened 9 years ago

maxheld83 commented 9 years ago

Wikipedia:

Since concourses do not have clear membership lists (as would be the case in the population of subjects), statements cannot be drawn randomly nor is there a theory which would specify an adequate sample they do not meet accepted scientific expectations for valid inference. Commonly Q methodologists use a structured sampling approach in order to try and represent the full breadth of the concourse but these do not justify inference from the Q-sample to the concourse.