Talk Is Cheap
Abstract
This article examines the methodological implications of the fact that what people say is often a poor predictor of what they do. We argue that many interview and survey researchers routinely conflate self-reports with behavior and assume a consistency between attitudes and action. We call this erroneous inference of situated behavior from verbal accounts the attitudinal fallacy. Though interviewing and ethnography are often lumped together as...
Paper Details
Title
Talk Is Cheap
Published Date
Mar 9, 2014
Volume
43
Issue
2
Pages
178 - 209
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