I am disappointed in the implicit assumption that folks are either qual or quant. When I had influence in the Toronto Sociology dept, I helped lead the way to ensure all grad students took a basic stats course and a basic ethnography course. They don't have to use both, but they have to be literate readers of both, and not shy away from use in fear or ignorance. I continue to think it is the only way forward for serious IR scholarship Barry Wellman, who was doing "mixed methods" before it was called that. _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________