ArticleOpen research Europe2025
Qualitative hypotheses.
Article in Open research Europe, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Open science practices in behavioral addictions: An exploratory survey.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
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Abstract
Hypotheses are not common in qualitative research. This can be largely attributed to many qualitative methods not being optimal or suitable for hypothesis-testing, and the epistemological curiosity in qualitative research often lacking interest in testing. Nonetheless, qualitative researchers, too, do often enter research projects with expectations, which are similar to hypotheses. These expectations can be useful to disclose and reflect on before a study is carried out. In this essay, I discuss qualitative hypotheses (QHs) as a means to disclose such expectations without testing them. In particular, QHs are presented as a tool that can be useful with recently proliferated reporting formats, such as a preregistration and registered reports, which involve a pre-analytic phase of written reflection.
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