# Reflections on qualitative research

Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/transformer-circuits
Published: 2024-03-08
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Why qualitative research plays a central role in interpretability, with heuristics for judging the quality of qualitative work.

## Review question

Distinguish a verbal rationale from a causal study of model internals. Look for interventions, competing mechanisms, coverage limits and explicit failures of the interpretation method.

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