Quantitative lunch -- Dr. Dan Spitzner (UVa Statistics).

This talk envisions some of the methodological possibilities that arise when traditional statistical practice is decoupled from its traditional scientific worldview and realigned with a qualitative mental model. The work described is motivated by perspectives, debates, and practices in socially inclusive research and mixed method research, within which the proposed methodology is expected to situate most well for use. The talk holds up Bayesian methodology for its potential consonance with a qualitative mental model, but in a form whose technical and foundational underpinnings are modified from traditional versions in order to emphasize conceptual flexibility and knowledge that is centered in community. Also discussed is a strategy for statistical reporting, derived from a concept called "pool-reduction," that is explicit in the tasks of decision-making.