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THE METAFORE PROTOCOLFIGURE 6. ExAMPLE OF CODING IN NVIVOThe Nvivo files are available upon request and can be used for furtheranalysis – something the team would welcome and encourage.Box – The issue of intercoder reliabilityIntercoder reliability is generally acknowledged as a critical componentof qualitative research design. Kolbe and Burnett, for instance, writethat ‘interjudge reliability is often perceived as the standard measureof research quality. High levels of disagreement among judges suggestweaknesses in research methods, including the possibility of pooroperational definitions, categories, and judge training’ 9 .9 Richard Kolbe, ‘Content-Analysis Research: An Examination of Applications with Directives forImproving Research Reliability and Objectivity,’ Journal of Consumer Research 18, no. 2(1991): 248.32Contours of Conflict in the 21 st Century