The power relations subso that dynamic of interviewer and interview led to kind of bias in the data. A person who's answering the questions will be thinking, what's in this for me? And may well be quite cynical because of past experiences or just from common sense about the situation. So I've come to think that quantitative surveys are useful for measurement, but qualitative surveys are really useful for understanding why we have the measurement.
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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under what conditions should qualitative surveys be preferred over quantitative and vice versa? What is participatory mapping? How has the field of development changed over the last few decades? Why do people get taller when sanitation improves?
Robert Chambers is a British academic and development practitioner. He spent his academic career at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies. He has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute, and marginalized at the center of the processes of development policy since the 1980s. Learn more about him here.
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