Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Statement I:Qualitative studies often provide too many details of the setting investigated.

Statement II:Critics point out that qualitative research suffers from the issue of replication.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true ✓ Correct

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false

CStatement I is true but Statement II is false

DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

Explanation

Both statements are true because they describe recognised features and criticisms of qualitative inquiry.

Qualitative studies do generate rich, dense description, and critics say this can bury the reader in detail of the setting.

Difficulty of replication is a standard criticism, since procedures are often unstructured and observer dependent.

The absence of a fixed instrument makes another researcher's exact repetition of the study hard to achieve.

Related criticisms include subjectivity and problems of generalisation from small purposive samples.

These weaknesses are the mirror image of the strengths of depth and contextual understanding.

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