They chose to include conceptually rich studies with a poor report of method, arguing that meta-ethnography is concerned primarily with conceptual development.
I can see what you are saying that it is conceptually rich but on the other hand there is so little to draw on methodologically to know whether any of the conceptual richness is grounded in any data.
Only in paper S7 did the reviewers state that this was because no new conceptual development had taken place following early conceptually-rich primary studies.
Like other long-established cultures the world over, the Akan have developed a rich conceptual system complete with metaphysical, moral, and epistemological aspects.
This paper deals with the development of cognitive architecture for learning by imitation in which a rich conceptual representation of the observed actions is built.
Because people with standpoint have different experiences and access to different domains of expertise than most members of a culture, they can draw on rich conceptual resources for creative thinking.
However, more recently Paul McNamara has suggested a rich conceptual analysis of the supererogatory which although leaving the question of asymmetry open, points to important analogies between the supererogatory and the suberogatory.
Support for the preservation of some discontinuity between the two domains has been gathered via evidence that lexical representations seem to underdetermine the rich conceptual content words are used to convey (e.g., Gleitman & Papafragou 2013).
Despite the obvious fallacies in these approaches, typification of users appears unproblematic for the experienced HCI professional, because in practice user types are rich conceptual structures that support professional user modelling.
It is only recently that philosophers have begun to engage with the rich conceptual issues underlying metrological practice, and particularly with the inferences involved in evaluating and improving the accuracy of measurement standards (Chang 2004; Boumans 2005a: Chap. 5, 2005b, 2007a; Frigerio et al. 2010; Tal forthcoming-a; Teller 2013a,b; Riordan 2014).
