in reply to: minimal requirements in reporting qualitative and quantitative studies: critics on two papers

In Reply to: Minimal Requirements in Reporting Qualitative and Quantitative Studies: Critics on Two Papers

After publication of our study on baloch women’s decision making about childbirth settings (1), I noticed a letter about my published article in your journal (2) and I am very glad that this article has been helpful. Now, I want to mention some points in detail about my study. Zahedan (the capital city of Sistan and Baluchestan Province and the setting of this study) has four equipped hospitals...

minimal requirements in reporting of qualitative and quantitative studies: critics on two papers

Minimal Requirements in Reporting of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies: Critics on Two Papers

We read with interest two papers published in the two recent issues of nursing and midwifery studies. Reading these two papers motivated us to write this letter, on the importance of observing several basic requirements in reporting qualitative and quantitative studies. Here, we present our critics, firstly, on the qualitative paper and then, on the quantitative one. In the issue of March 2015,...

Reply to Our Critics

Ratte for reading and criticizing our book. Interestingly, their three sets of comments (to which we shall respond in order) reflect three very different standpoints on both vision and the science of vision. 1. Reply to Tim Schroeder Tim Schroeder is a very sympathetic reader indeed. He raises two queries, both of which are well taken and go deep to the heart of our framework. His first questio...

Reply to Critics

As is well-understood, the postwar economy, has gone through two major phases. During the long boom between the end of the 1940s and the early 1970s, most of the advanced capitalist economies (outside the United States and the United Kingdom) experienced record-breaking rates of investment, output, productivity, and wage growth, along with low unemployment and only brief and mild recessions. Bu...

Reply to Critics

One of the central moral challenges facing numerous political communities today is political reconciliation. In the aftermath of repression, conflict, and injustice, communities confront the task of repairing damaged relationships among citizens and between citizens and officials. In A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation, I develop a theory of what this process entails and of its moral sig...