| | Eric, you meant QUALITATIVE here instead of quantitative, right ("and interviews to collect data for their quantitative study on mobility concerns")? The title of the article tells us this was a qualitative study so you are on track, for sure. Could you fill in the gaps here to help us delineate this as qualitative for those you might have missed the Landrum particulars? Let's keep this conversation going because these methods are all qualitative. I love qualitative studies! | | | Through our text,” naturalistic observation tends to fall into the category of qualitative research, and the goal of qualitative research is to understand human behavior holistically (rather than analytically)” (Landrum, 2014). One recent study that was done was on females going through Ranger School with the United States Army. This was study conducted to determine if females would be able to endure and make it through the challenges that a male soldier goes through to become a ranger based of the Department of the Defense. This is qualitative data as it shows the individual interviews of the females and males who were going through the course together, focus groups based on evaluations and performance reviews from the trainers at the school, along with plenty of observations and action research of being able to watch these females go through the course. The likely hood of a female graduating from this school is slim now only because not as many females started the course as the males and still plenty of males did not make it through the courses as well. With the research, nineteen female and 381 male soldiers started Ranger School of which only two females along with 88 males graduated from. That means that over two-thirds of the course was a No-Go. This data that was gathered now has allowed more combat operations and positions to be open to females serving in numerous combat billets. Qualitative data has now shown the Department of Defense that females can endure the same hardship and challenges as their male counterparts.
The data that is collected from these females in Ranger school is data that can be considered both discrete and continuous. Discrete that data will stay the way it is for that graduation class that occurred but continuous that other females may graduate from the course. It can keep going on until it is shut down but as for now, the data can continue on and possibly have different adverse actions later. Landrum, E. (2014). Research Methods for Business: Tools and Applications. San Diego, CA:Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Tan, M. (2015) Army Time: First female Ranger grads share credit with classmates. Retrieved from http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/08/20/first-female-ranger-grads-share-credit-classmates/32079657/
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| | | Stephanie,
What an interesting topic. I have always followed things like this in a brief manner, being prior service myself. There are different studies if you will pertaining to females assuming the roles traditionally held by their male counter parts, and of course of the women who want to perform those functions, only a slight fraction of them make it through the process to do so. They have recently allowed women on submarines, and a few years back a female soldier finally was allowed to shift and perform changing of the guards to guard the 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier'. Though qualitative data and time has shown us that females indeed can do the same things men can, quantitative says at a much lesser rate sometimes than their male counterparts in male dominated or traditional- areas. Great post! Thank you for sharing.
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RESPOND TO 2 STUDENTS DISCUSSION2 | | | I had taken my dog to a dog park around 10 a.m.yesterday, I have a small yorkie and there are normally quite a few people out with their dogs as well. There were about 10-15 other dog owners, in which the majority owned much larger dogs than my own and there may have been 4 to 5 small/medium dogs as well. Though all owners who use dog parks understand that they are allowed to let their dogs free at their own risk, as all dogs temperaments are different; and dogs also do not know how big or small they are or if they'll actually get along with another dog.
My question was "How comfortable are owners of larger dogs, with allowing them to be in the same open area for play with smaller dogs?" What I noticed, depending on the owner and their confidence in their training and control of their own dog, had no issue allowing their dog, who may have been anywhere from 15-50 pounds heavier than my own dog to run free and play with. Their control over their dog was very impressive, they simply payed attention and had sound (name call) or signal for their dog when they felt they were being too rough and the dog immediately stopped and became much more gentle. Those who did not have this level of control or were not so sure of their own dogs mood, would almost immediately take their dogs into another gated area or ask another owner to hold on letting their smaller dog loose, while they leashed their dog to be moved. In essence, owners who have trained their dogs properly, know there is no reason any dog cannot play with other dogs; however, if the owner has not or does not have control over their dog, there could be a problem resulting in harm to someone else's dog, and they would rather not risk it.
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(an instructor response) | | | Nicole, this is an example of a fun and practical way to get the feel of observational research. Landrum tells us we can do it just like you did or used Closed Caption TV (CCT) methods to observe what other people are doing. A company might do this by setting up microphones and cameras to observe the flow of traffic into and out of a store or how much time servers are spending with the customer vs. socializing. The day at the dog park (I love Yorkies by the way) was a valuable tool to see the application here. What else could you have done to even understand the question even more fully? |
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