As reporters, we believed that if we interviewed enough sources, and rummaged through enough documents, the facts would lead us to the truth.
Because surveys only talk to a sample of the population, we know that the result probably won't exactly match the 'true' result that we would get if we interviewed everyone in the population.
Still, when we asked if we could interview her, she said she didn't really think anyone would want to read an interview with "a novice".
Stewart's always been a capable interviewer, if we define "interviewing" as the simple task of genially greeting a guest and provoking an entertaining conversation.
Incoming animals from elsewhere struggled to thrive as described by this interviewee: "being … a very marginal hill farm…If we buy in [animals] they need a year to acclimatise anyway, so we're far better off to keep our own [replacement animals] if we can" (interview 116, hill sheep and beef farmer).
We just write if we want (Interview J, age 63, Cunningmoor A, August 02 2010).
But in our case, Young Jeezy, Coach K and stylist Mario were so focused that we got the exact same answers we would if we were interviewing them.
There is no reason to believe that our results and conclusions would be different if we had interviewed more of the excluded patients.
A greater diversity of opinions may have been generated if our sample inclusion criteria had been broader or if we had interviewed more stakeholders from outside the U.S. where palliative care can be more deeply integrated.
Mothers were interviewed no more than 3 6 months after the baby's birth to reduce recall bias, and this might also have made the efforts and stress related to taking care of a baby whether preterm or term more similar than if we had interviewed them right after birth.
