The Pink Elephant Paradox (or, Avoiding the Misattribution of Data)
The pink elephant paradox refers to the threat to inductive thinking caused by the difficulty of inadvertently proving the existence of a concept or phenomena just because it overtly or insidiously exists in one's thoughts, leading to misattribution, or miscategorization of data, and thus subve...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2002-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Qualitative Methods |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690200100405 |