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this way you avoid trapping people in an endless loop of odds vs risk ratios and then springing a whole 'nother method family on them as though you haven't repeatedly shown them a fictional pyramid where qualitative research doesn't even feature so why even listen

procrastination hot take (it's due Monday and I'm working this weekend)
START with qual methods - they lend themselves to philosophical thinking about what knowledge we want and where it's coming from etc., and don't get bogged down in stats
THEN move to quant and show how it's different

it's not the sort of thing that fits neatly into a journal club either, so when apart from highly theoretical settings will you need this fundamental understanding??

don't get me wrong I personally really like this sort of thing but I can see where the difficulty lies in /teaching/ it

(it's for an assignment that's why I'm doing it) but seriously, either you start with clinically-relevant stuff like RCTs, case-control vs cohort etc. and then spring this on students who will ignore it IRL, OR you start with like 'what is knowledge' which like... you will lose people!

I can understand why research methods is difficult to teach, because tell me why I'm writing an essay about using a qual paper to inform clinical practice and I'm finding myself talking about different philosophical approaches?

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