Tricia: In general, the coding team will meet to review each coder's interpretation of the data, then work together to negotiate agreement on how each conflicting piece of data can be coded. Ideally (even though these processes can take some time), there shouldn't be too many areas where coders are coming up with 'vastly different' codes for similar data.
Again, the ideal scenario is to have a number of 'pre-data analysis' meetings with the coding team, them have each person code a "sample set" of identical material, then meet to work out any significant differences in perceptions (and subsequently coding efforts) BEFORE a majority of the actual coding has taken place. Hope this helps. - Jan Buhrmann ========================== Jan Buhrmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Illinois College E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 217-245-3877 "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -- Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tricia Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:47 AM To: Teaching Sociology Subject: TEACHSOC: Content Analysis I am working with a student on a paper doing content analysis of magazine images. She has coded the images, along with two other coders. We are going to test for inter-coder reliablity. The part I am stuck on, given that I have never done such research, is when you have three coders - whose code do you use to test the hypotheses under study? Particularly when you are dealing with a descrete variable. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
