HEARING DISCORDANT VOICES - SOME NOTES ON USING BAYESS THEOREM IN INTERPRETIVE INQUIRY

The focus of these brief comments is to argue that Bayes's theorem may have conceptual and pedagogical applications for qualitative analysis . We suggest that the theorem is a salient alternative voice for the d evelopment of sensitizing concepts. If is also proposed that the theor em is a useful heuristic for raising deep-structure issues such as the nature of qualitative evidence and how such evidence becomes confirmi ng for a given claim.