We used a combination of data generation methods, centred around multiple in-depth interviews, which enable process or change (or indeed stability) to be highlighted, trust to be built [ 14], and a deeper understanding to be gained of 'the meaning which informants attribute to certain events' [ 15].
Rosenberg and Lasseter: Intelligence analysts are at odds with each other over which informants to trust, at times drawing inferences from prisoners' exercise habits.
The schedule design followed the ideas of narrative interviewing in which informants are encouraged to tell their story relating to the subject of study (Larty and Hamilton, 2011; Bryman, 2004).
Furthermore, the period over which informants were asked to comment on delirium symptoms was not strictly defined ('in recent weeks and months') and may be overstated due to recall bias.
The fourth set of questions dealt with the rational use of medicines to which the informants were less positive.
As Jan Fernback and Trevor Blank have individually observed, the online discussion forum is therefore an ideal site to study legend, a genre that unfolds in conversation, often as a debate regarding matters of contested ontological status which informants might feel abashed to discuss in the presence of the academic researcher (Fernback 2003; Blank 2007).
"It's impossible to predict the roots of an act of violence," said Gessen, as the panelists questioned the value of a "theatre of protection" if they impeded personal liberties and spoke of an "economy of terror", in which informants and terror suspects with "no other recourse to wealth" sought to transcend their financial destinies.
Lack of agreement between parents and children should lead not only to consideration of which informant is most objective or valid, but also to questions about what meaning these differences might have in the context of the parent-child relationship or the family's psychosocial status and eventually lead to further assessment of these dimensions of the child's life.
About 30% of post-9/11 terrorism cases are considered sting operations in which informants played an "active role" in incubating plots leading to arrest, according to studies cited in the Human Rights Watch report.
As the Americans and Iraqis pondered how to silence the sniper, the Iraqi lieutenant explained that their enemy appeared to be firing from a small hole in a wall at the end of the alley, which informants had said was rigged with bombs.
