Patton, Michael Quinn

Michael Quinn Patton is an independent consultant with more than 40 years experience conducting applied research and program evaluations. He lives in Minnesota, where, according to the state s poet laureate, Garrison Keillor, all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. It was this interesting lack of statistical variation in Minnesota that led him to qualitative inquiry despite the strong quantitative orientation of his doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota for 18 ye...