In between those rain-soaked video reports, John Schiumo — host of "The Call" — read aloud e-mails and texts and tweets from fellow NY1 staff members, checking in from their homes in various sections of the city and nearby.
For instance, Foursquare is evolving into a local search engine, using the data it has amassed from members' check-ins and recommendations.
Of course, I knew Coleman II was a so-called special-needs prison a "safe" facility where informants, former cops, ex-gang members, check-ins (prisoners who intentionally put themselves in solitary confinement to be safe), homosexuals, and sex offenders can all, supposedly, walk the Yard freely.
12 16 A focus-group discussion served as a member check, in order to achieve consensus among the therapists about the main performance problems.
Focus group discussions then were held to validate and further explore data collected during the interviews (Morgan 1993) in "member checks," in which participants verified or denied the validity of preliminary data (Lincoln and Guba 1985).
We incorporated additional peer-checking and member checking with review by colleagues in Obstetrics and Pediatrics, independent reviewers of the initial manuscript, as well as additional input from parents who participated in the focus groups.
Among the qualitative studies, few triangulated findings through the use of multiple methods for addressing the same question, few performed member checking to ensure accuracy in the responses collected from participants, and few mentioned sampling until saturation was reached.
These procedures include the purposeful sampling strategy of maximum variation and member checking with the participants on different in-depth levels.
Member checking resulted in minor transcript revisions and adjustments by 13 (19%) residents.
