Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 28/07/2025As I move into the “Recycling the last hard copy of my PhD” stage of clearing my office, it gives me pause to see just how unrelenting my malcontent and snark have been. 🤪 020
Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Today I learned about the empiricist's moustache. Steinmetz, G. (2004). Odious comparisons: Incommensurability, the case study, and “small N's” in sociology. Sociological theory, 22(3), 371-400. doi.org/10.1111/j.07... 010
Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I'm teaching 'Quality assessment in Qualitative Research (QLR)' tomorrow. I will be pleading for no new checklists that add little to Chapter 5 of Murphy et al (1999). QLR … A review of the literature. Health Tech. Assess., 2(16), doi.org/10.3310/hta2... 000
Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 31/12/2023"The experimental method ... taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored.... Germans .... obviously cannot" (James, 1890, p. 192) psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Princi... 000