research methodology
4 essaysLOOM XVI: Are You Climbing the Right Hill?
When Rigor Becomes the Wrong Kind of More
"Xule: I had a two-stage research design. Inductive qualitative work first, then a second, quantitative stage to extend and test what emerged. It made sense. It was coherent. The epistemological commitments held together. Then I tried to make it "..."
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Cognitive Signatures in Human-AI Research: Towards a Resonant Methodology
"When we first began exploring AI's role in qualitative research, we noticed something curious - different models seemed to approach analysis in distinctly different ways. What started as a simple observation about varying capabilities has evolved int..."
read essay →LOOM IV: Dialogue as Method
A Letter on Knowledge Co-Creation in the Age of AI
"The Evolution of Knowledge Creation"
read essay →LOOM III: Between Automated Precision and Lived Understanding
A Dialogue on the Future of Social Science Research
"This is the third post of the series - LOOM: Locus of Observed Meanings. Check out the first post for our vision for LOOM."
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