Question

What is the role of a researcher when seeking problem-specific data through qualitative research?

The researcher attempts to get yes or no answers from subjects.

The researcher creates strict guidelines to direct responses to questions.

The researcher tries to prevent the subject from giving open-ended responses.

The researcher seeks for subjects to share their honest thoughts on a topic without interference.

The researcher desires to obtain broad generalities from subjects.

Answer 1

The researcher seeks for subjects to share their honest thoughts on a topic without interference.

To attain problem specific data, the investigator cannot rely on Yes or no answers since that will contrain the scope of the problem. So option 1 and 2 are incorrect. The investigator in fact encourages open ended responses and tries to enlarge rather than limit the responses. So option 3 is incorrect. However the topic is predecided and he encourages open thoughts o nthe topic under consideration. So Option 4 is correct. Option 5 is incorrect since the topic is pre-decided and so generalities across subjects are not encouraged.