The right move isn’t to defend one method as pure—it’s to understand its limits, use it where it makes sense, and, when the stakes are high, see whether other methods confirm the finding.

The sampling space is a great example - researchers get caught up in their "gold standard" method, whether it be in-person, text-to-web, phone, etc. The reality is no sampling method performs well enough to be a gold standard - they're all biased, just in different ways.

When people treat a particular method as the only right way to answer a question they shut down vital parts of inquiry: testing whether findings hold up across approaches and deeply understanding the limitations of any given method.

Methodological dogmas are dangerous in any research space.

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