Reflexivity

Research

Systematic examination of how the researcher's own position, values, and assumptions shape the questions asked, the data noticed, and the conclusions drawn — a standard expectation across qualitative and reflexive quantitative work alike.

A second entry for this term. The fuller version, with everything from both, is at Reflexivity.

Deeper treatment: this term also has a full entry in the Business Library.

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• Abbreviation
• Abstract
• Abstraction
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• Analysis
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Rewritten from a truncated AJG archive entry, August 2026.