Rigor and trustworthiness
Intercoder Agreement in Qualitative Research: When It Fits—and When It Does Not
A method-sensitive guide to independent coding, agreement statistics, consensus work, and reflexive qualitative approaches.
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Author: Sentez
Analysis and reporting
Demographic Cross-Analysis in Qualitative Data: What It Can—and Can’t—Tell You
How to use metadata comparisons descriptively while avoiding small-group overclaims, causal language, and confidentiality risks.
Research design
Designing Multimodal Studies: When to Combine Text, Audio, Video, and Images
How to design a multimodal qualitative study where different materials deepen analysis rather than merely increase volume.
Research design
How Many Interviews Are Enough? Saturation in Practice
How to use saturation carefully without turning it into a universal number or a substitute for methodological judgement.
Research design
Sampling in Qualitative Research: Purposive, Theoretical, and Maximum Variation Sampling Explained
A practical guide to matching qualitative sampling decisions to the question, case context, and claims a study can support.
Research design
What Makes Qualitative Data “Codable”? A Practical Framework Before You Start
A practical way to decide whether material is ready for qualitative coding, and what to do before creating a codebook.
Analysis and reporting
REFI-QDA and Interoperability: Why Your Coding Should Be Portable
Why a portable project archive matters, what a .qdpx exchange can carry, and why compatibility reports should be read carefully.
AI and ethics
Using AI to Draft, Not Decide: A Responsible Workflow for AI-Assisted QDA
A researcher-controlled workflow for using AI to organise, suggest, and draft without outsourcing analytical responsibility.
Analysis and reporting
Negative Case Analysis: What Disconfirming Evidence Does for Your Credibility
Why contradictory, unusual, and ambiguous cases deserve analytical attention instead of being treated as inconvenient exceptions.
Coding practice
From PDF to Insight: Coding Scanned and Structured Documents Without Losing Context
How to decide between text selection and visual-region coding in PDFs, including OCR checks and context-preserving practices.