Why should you not
do interviews? Time- interviews take
a great deal of time to plan, interview, transcribe data, and analyze. Doing
qualitative data is not the "easy way" to do research. Transcription
of interviews takes hours and there really is not a fast and easy way to do it
(unless you can afford to have someone else do it).
Being
shy- doing
interviews requires that you recruit and contact people that you do not know.
If you are very shy/ afraid to contact strangers, the process can be
insurmountable.
Not
understanding other methodologies-
often students decide on qualitative methods and fail to really understand quantitative
methods. This is very limiting in the long run, it may mean that you have
limited future job opportunities. Make sure that you get as much experience as
you can in all methods, so your options remain open.
Ethical/moral
issues- there
may be ethical reasons for not interviewing certain people/ populations as it
may be seen as exploitative and potentially damaging to them. An example would
be interviewing illegal immigrants or prisoners, who could potentially be hurt
if their comments were identified as coming from particular individuals.
Interviewing needs
to be carefully considered as a research method and needs to be a fit for your
personality, time, and your population.
Next time I will consider what is meant by phenomenological
interviewing. Do you have an issue or a
question that you would like me to discuss in a future post? Would you like to
be a guest writer? Send me your ideas! leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu
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