Long day today (actually, technically it should read "long day yesterday," since it is 1 a.m., but I'm not worried about technicalities at this point. So much has happened--there was a faculty meeting with our boss' boss, which did not go well and went an hour over time, then my focus group, which was so wound up from the faculty meeting that I am not sure we got much accomplished, then a GSA meeting to attend so I could take fieldnotes, then a guy who used to work for me as a TAC came to visit, so we all went to the bar across the street, and there were several interesting conversations there for me to mentally record as a source of data. Then of course I had to come back and make fieldnotes immediately since I didn't write anything down while the conversations were going on...if I had gone to bed I would not have remembered the conversations as well in the morning.
I am kind of worried that I might have done something--not unethical, exactly, more like atypical. There were about 10 faculty at the bar, hanging out and chatting. I asked two faculty members across from me how they felt the first time they came to campus. Neither of them had attended the program and so really didn't know what to expect. I got some excellent data from them, but I also feel like I led the conversation in a way to get data without telling them that is why I asked the question. Should I be able to use this data? I'm simply not sure. Neither of the faculty is a participant in my interviews/focus groups, so it's not like I have their implied consent or anything. I'll do some research on the issue tomorrow, I suppose.
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