[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":428},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement":3,"answers-cluster-research-gaps":107,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement":147},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"cluster":69,"description":70,"extension":71,"faq":72,"heading":75,"intro":63,"kind":76,"meta":77,"navigation":78,"order":79,"outbound":80,"path":87,"primaryQuery":88,"product":89,"related":90,"seo":93,"sources":94,"stem":105,"updated":98,"__hash__":106},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement.md","How to Write a Research Gap Statement","Three sentences. What the field has established, what it has not, and why the missing part matters. The first sentence credits the work, the second names the absence precisely, and the third gives a reason to care. Anything longer usually means the gap is not yet clear to you.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":62},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,29,34,37,40,43,46,50,53,56,59],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The three-sentence shape works because it matches the way a reader evaluates a claim of novelty. They want to know that you understand the field, that you have identified something specific it lacks, and that filling the lack changes something. Missing any one of those makes the statement fail in a predictable way.",[11,15,16],{},"A worked example. \"Mentoring programmes reliably improve early-career retention, a result replicated across three national samples. What these studies share is a focus on formal, institutionally assigned pairings, and none has examined the informal mentoring that most participants report actually using. If informal relationships carry the effect, current policy is subsidizing the wrong mechanism.\"",[11,18,19],{},"Notice what that does. It credits the literature rather than dismissing it. The absence is narrow enough to be checkable, which also means it is falsifiable, and being falsifiable is what makes it credible. And the third sentence gives a consequence outside the literature, so the gap is not merely bibliographic.",[11,21,22],{},"The same shape has a name in the methods literature. Lingard calls it Problem-Gap-Hook: state the problem, name what remains unknown, then give the reason the unknown part warrants your study, and asks that the review around it map the known work so a white space becomes visible rather than inventory everything you have read (Lingard, 2018, Part I, p. 47). Pautasso reaches the same place from a different direction, arguing that a review should surface methodological problems, live debates, and outstanding questions instead of summarizing publication after publication (Pautasso, 2013, p. 3). The practical translation is to replace \"Study A found X, Study B found Y\" with a sentence that names the unresolved issue itself, an inconsistency between findings, an untested population, or a limit in the available method (Lingard, 2018, Part I, pp. 47-48).",[11,24,25],{},"Say what kind of gap it is, and make your design match it. Lingard's point is that announcing a gap is not enough, the methodology has to be coherent with the type of deficit you mapped, so a methodological gap needs an explanation of what existing methods cannot establish and why yours can, while a gap of context or population needs the missing case named rather than the field described as under-researched (Lingard, 2018, Part I, p. 49). Lingard notes that this burden is heaviest in a well-studied area, using professionalism in medical education as the case where readers start out doubting that any more research is needed (Lingard, 2018, Part I, p. 48).",[11,27,28],{},"The most common failure is a gap that is really a description of your intended study. \"No study has examined informal mentoring in Welsh secondary schools using longitudinal methods\" is a gap defined by stacking your own design choices until nothing matches. An examiner will ask why each qualifier matters, and you need an answer for every one.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"what-phrasing-makes-a-gap-statement-sound-weak","What phrasing makes a gap statement sound weak?",[11,35,36],{},"Absence-only phrasing. \"No study has examined X\" invites the answer \"and for good reason\". Also weak: \"little is known about\", \"has received limited attention\", and \"more research is needed\", all of which describe the literature without saying why the missing piece matters.",[11,38,39],{},"The stronger constructions carry a consequence. \"This leaves open whether\", \"the mechanism therefore remains untested\", \"current guidance rests on evidence from a single setting\". Each says what is at stake rather than what is absent.",[11,41,42],{},"What makes the stronger phrasing safe to use is a search you can produce on request. Pautasso lists the habits that make one auditable: record your search terms so the process can be repeated, keep a list of the PDFs you could not access, use reference software such as Mendeley or Papers, fix your exclusion criteria early, and read previous reviews as well as primary studies (Pautasso, 2013, p. 1). Pautasso also asks for varied keywords across several databases, naming Google Scholar, JSTOR, Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science, plus citation tracing out of the papers and book chapters you already have (Pautasso, 2013, p. 2). With that behind you the defensible sentence is \"across the studies retrieved under these terms and criteria, evidence remains limited on\", not \"no research has examined\".",[11,44,45],{},"Also avoid claiming to be first unless you are certain. \"The first study to\" is the sentence examiners and reviewers most enjoy disproving, and one overlooked paper undermines everything around it. \"One of the few\" costs nothing and cannot be falsified by a single reference.",[30,47,49],{"id":48},"how-long-should-a-gap-statement-be","How long should a gap statement be?",[11,51,52],{},"Three to five sentences in a thesis chapter, one to two in an article introduction. It appears more than once, so keep the wording consistent across the abstract, the introduction, the end of the review chapter, and the discussion. Inconsistent phrasing reads as an unsettled argument.",[11,54,55],{},"Write the canonical version once, in a file of its own, and paste it in each place, adapting only the length. Drift happens otherwise, and by the fourth draft the abstract claims something slightly different from the review chapter, which is exactly the discrepancy an examiner picks up.",[11,57,58],{},"Revisit that canonical version whenever your results come in. A gap statement written in year one often needs a small correction by the end, and correcting it deliberately is better than leaving four versions to disagree.",[11,60,61],{},"Check as well that the gap still exists. Pautasso warns that a gap closes quietly through papers in press, studies published since you searched, and older work called sleeping beauties that nobody had cited yet (Pautasso, 2013, pp. 3-4). Pautasso also sorts the terrain by how much has been published and how many reviews already exist, which decides whether a field needs a review, a review of reviews, a set of research questions, or a demonstration that more primary research is required, and his example of climate-change impacts on plant diseases is a case where the reviews outnumber the primary papers, so \"more studies are needed\" is an assumption rather than a finding (Pautasso, 2013, p. 2). Lingard and Pautasso agree on the principle and differ on where writers fail, Lingard on the rhetorical shape and the fit with your methods, Pautasso on coverage and keeping the search current.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":65},"",4,[66,68],{"id":32,"depth":67,"text":33},2,{"id":48,"depth":67,"text":49},"research-gaps","How to write a research gap statement that holds up, which phrasings make a gap sound weak or overclaimed, and how long the statement should actually be.","md",[73,74],{"q":33,"a":36},{"q":49,"a":52},"How do I write a research gap statement?","answer",{},true,3,[81,84],{"label":82,"to":83},"Gap finding as a workflow","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Fgap-finding",{"label":85,"to":86},"Outlining a paper from a map","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Foutlining-a-paper","\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","how to write a research gap 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(2013)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1003149","answers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","uhHCMgmoLb0c8hHh0AkVCSqUqesTfbJX5hfO2Fzc2yQ",[108,113,117,118,122,127,132,137,142],{"path":109,"heading":110,"description":111,"order":112},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?","How to identify a research gap in the literature, the different kinds of gap that exist, and how to tell a real one from a topic nobody has bothered to publish on.",1,{"path":114,"heading":115,"description":116,"order":67},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original","How do I know if my research gap is original?","How to check that a research gap has not already been filled, what to do if someone publishes your idea first, and how thorough the originality check has to be.",{"path":87,"heading":75,"description":70,"order":79},{"path":119,"heading":120,"description":121,"order":64},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fturn-a-topic-into-a-research-question","How do I turn a research topic into a research question?","How to convert a broad research topic into an answerable research question, how narrow it needs to be, and the difference between a question and a research aim.",{"path":123,"heading":124,"description":125,"order":126},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwhat-makes-a-good-research-question","What makes a good research question in a PhD thesis?","What separates a doctoral research question from a masters one, how many questions a thesis should have, and whether sub-questions should map onto chapters.",5,{"path":128,"heading":129,"description":130,"order":131},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-or-hypothesis","What is the difference between a research question and a hypothesis?","The difference between a research question and a hypothesis, whether a qualitative study can have one, and when a project genuinely needs both.",6,{"path":133,"heading":134,"description":135,"order":136},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","Can a research question change during a PhD?","Whether a research question can change during a PhD, how to justify the change to a supervisor or committee, and what happens to work built on the old question.",7,{"path":138,"heading":139,"description":140,"order":141},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fnarrow-a-broad-research-question","How do I narrow down a research question that is too broad?","How to narrow a research question that is too broad, which parts of a question you can narrow on, and how to tell when you have gone too far the other way.",8,{"path":143,"heading":144,"description":145,"order":146},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?","How to choose a theoretical framework for a thesis, the difference between a theoretical and a conceptual framework, and whether you can use more than one.",9,[148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,171,174,177,180,183,186,189,192,195,198,201,204,207,210,213,216,219,222,225,228,231,234,237,240,243,246,249,252,255,258,261,264,267,270,272,275,278,281,284,287,290,293,296,299,302,305,308,311,314,317,320,323,326,329,332,335,338,341,344,347,350,353,356,359,362,365,368,371,374,377,380,383,386,389,392,395,396,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404,407,410,413,416,419,422,425],{"path":149,"heading":150},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?",{"path":152,"heading":153},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?",{"path":155,"heading":156},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?",{"path":158,"heading":159},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis","How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?",{"path":161,"heading":162},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?",{"path":164,"heading":165},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?",{"path":167,"heading":168},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?",{"path":91,"heading":170},"How do I write a thesis introduction?",{"path":172,"heading":173},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","How do I write an abstract for a research paper?",{"path":175,"heading":176},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?",{"path":178,"heading":179},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":181,"heading":182},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":184,"heading":185},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":187,"heading":188},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":190,"heading":191},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":193,"heading":194},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":196,"heading":197},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":199,"heading":200},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":202,"heading":203},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":205,"heading":206},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":208,"heading":209},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":211,"heading":212},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-ai-answers-better-on-your-own-pdfs","Why does an AI answer better when it reads my own PDFs?",{"path":214,"heading":215},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":217,"heading":218},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":220,"heading":221},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":223,"heading":224},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":226,"heading":227},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":229,"heading":230},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":232,"heading":233},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":235,"heading":236},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":238,"heading":239},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fjournal-page-number-or-pdf-page-number","Do I use the journal page number or the PDF page number in a citation?",{"path":241,"heading":242},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":244,"heading":245},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":247,"heading":248},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":250,"heading":251},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":253,"heading":254},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":256,"heading":257},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":259,"heading":260},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":262,"heading":263},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":265,"heading":266},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":268,"heading":269},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":92,"heading":271},"How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":273,"heading":274},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":276,"heading":277},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":279,"heading":280},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":282,"heading":283},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":285,"heading":286},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":288,"heading":289},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva","How do I defend my methodology in a viva?",{"path":291,"heading":292},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?",{"path":294,"heading":295},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?",{"path":297,"heading":298},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?",{"path":300,"heading":301},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?",{"path":303,"heading":304},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?",{"path":306,"heading":307},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","What happens if you fail a PhD viva?",{"path":309,"heading":310},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?",{"path":312,"heading":313},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?",{"path":315,"heading":316},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","How do I choose a journal for my paper?",{"path":318,"heading":319},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?",{"path":321,"heading":322},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?",{"path":324,"heading":325},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?",{"path":327,"heading":328},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?",{"path":330,"heading":331},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?",{"path":333,"heading":334},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?",{"path":336,"heading":337},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint","Should I post my paper as a preprint?",{"path":339,"heading":340},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","How do I tell if a journal is predatory?",{"path":342,"heading":343},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?",{"path":345,"heading":346},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ffind-the-paper-you-half-remember","How do I find a paper when I only remember the argument it made?",{"path":348,"heading":349},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":351,"heading":352},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhow-many-papers-can-you-read-a-day","How many papers can a PhD student realistically read in a day?",{"path":354,"heading":355},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":357,"heading":358},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":360,"heading":361},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnote-system-takes-too-long","What do I do when my note-taking system takes longer than reading the papers?",{"path":363,"heading":364},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":366,"heading":367},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":369,"heading":370},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":372,"heading":373},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":375,"heading":376},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":378,"heading":379},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":381,"heading":382},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":384,"heading":385},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":387,"heading":388},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":390,"heading":391},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":393,"heading":394},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":143,"heading":144},{"path":109,"heading":110},{"path":114,"heading":115},{"path":138,"heading":139},{"path":133,"heading":134},{"path":128,"heading":129},{"path":119,"heading":120},{"path":123,"heading":124},{"path":87,"heading":75},{"path":405,"heading":406},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fchoose-a-statistical-test","How do I choose which statistical test to use?",{"path":408,"heading":409},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-many-interviews-is-enough","How many interviews are enough for a qualitative study?",{"path":411,"heading":412},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-to-do-thematic-analysis","How do I do thematic analysis step by step?",{"path":414,"heading":415},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Finductive-or-deductive-coding","What is the difference between inductive and deductive thematic analysis?",{"path":417,"heading":418},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fintegrate-mixed-methods-data","How do I integrate qualitative and quantitative data in a mixed methods study?",{"path":420,"heading":421},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Frigour-in-qualitative-research","How do I show rigour in qualitative research?",{"path":423,"heading":424},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwhat-a-p-value-means","What does a p value actually mean?",{"path":426,"heading":427},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwork-out-your-sample-size","How do I calculate the sample size for a study?",1786014767796]