Inductive content analysis

Content analysis is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication. Earl Babbie defines it as "the study of recorded human communications, such as books, websites, paintings and laws."

In this paper, inductive content analysis(Krippendorf,1980) was applied. The primary focus of the analysis was on the comments. The comments contain what the questioners liked about the chosen answer(best answer) or why they like it.

The steps to do content analysis as described in this paper:

1) Prepare the Data

2) Define the Unit of Analysis

3) Develop Categories and a Coding Scheme

4) Test Your Coding Scheme on a Sample of Text

5) Code All the Text

6) Assess Your Coding Consistency

7) Draw Conclusions from the Coded Data

8) Report Your Methods and Findings