Frustration with Coding

[priorities2]

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Has anyone had experience coding video tapes of people's interactions? I am so frustrated with our incomplete coding manual and the supervisors' contradictions of one another. Has anyone had a POSITIVE experience with coding that made it seem sensical?

 

[PsychPhDone]

I've coded a lot. There have been some organizational difficulties at times, but during coder meetings we have been able to resolve these. I think the most annoying part about coding is the sheer amount of time doing it.

Are you able to give feedback at all?

 

[ReInventor]

I was in a coding-heavy lab in undergrad, and I did not enjoy it. I thought it was extremely arbitrary and am not sure how good the quality of the research we produced was. I suppose I don't have any helpful advice for you, just wanted to share the misery!

 

[cara susanna]

Haha, I just went through coding training and I was always the one person who was totally off. It was great 😉

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

I was in a coding-heavy lab in undergrad, and I did not enjoy it. I thought it was extremely arbitrary and am not sure how good the quality of the research we produced was. I suppose I don't have any helpful advice for you, just wanted to share the misery!

It "can" produce a high quality of research, but the devil is in the details. Proper training and reliability, consistancy, etc. of the raters will make or break a study.

My first lab-based research experience was mostly coding, and it painfully boring. After many hours of watching VHS tapes, i actually looked forward to doing the lit review...if only to get away from the fixed view of the Phil Donahue furniture and random grating yells of the children at play. However, it was a great place to learn the nuts and bolts of research.

 

[futureapppsy2]

Haha, I just went through coding training and I was always the one person who was totally off. It was great 😉

I've been that person--it sucks, especially when you know you're right. 😉