Quote of the day

"After all, man is, in his ordinary way, a very competent knower, and qualitative common-sense knowing is not replaced by quantitative knowing ... This is not to say that such common-sense naturalistic observation is objective, dependable, or unbiased. But it is all that we have. It is the only route to knowledge - noisy, fallible, and biased though it be."

(Campbell, cited by Flyvbjerg (2001), Making Social Science Matter)

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