Tomáš Lintner presented at the Social Processes and Personality 2026 conference
Tomáš Lintner presented his research at the Social Processes and Personality 2026 conference.
SΛTIS member Tomáš Lintner has published a new study called When discovery is mistaken for applicability: a warning on practice implications drawn from purely qualitative research.
Practice recommendations are action-guiding claims directing practitioners or policymakers toward one course of action rather than another. Such claims require evidentiary warrants that typical qualitative designs, on their own, do not supply: a justified link from observations to a broader population, a credible comparison between alternative courses of action, and an explicit account of uncertainty.
Drawing on an audit of empirical articles published in 2025 in four qualitative journals (Qualitative Health Research, Qualitative Research in Psychology, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Qualitative Sociology), the study examined how often practice implications are derived solely from qualitative materials. A substantial and consistent proportion of articles did so.
The findings suggest that this pattern reflects structural pressures encouraging researchers to overstate actionable conclusions, rather than the limits of qualitative inquiry itself. The article concludes by offering constructive guidance for aligning qualitative conclusions with the warrants a given design can provide.
Read the full article here.
