For them, to interpret is to understand and that makes interpretation such a difficult task. They do not know how to handle informants' contradictory accounts. Students were also aware of the problematic nature of understanding and intersubjectivity. They had extreme difficulties in understanding the meaning of some utterances. People use so many different words to refer to the same thing.
Students seem to be captured in an assumption that the meaning of a word is somehow fixed a priori.
Another implicit assumption is that meaning is a material thing. In discussions students discover that they are not the only ones experiencing anxiety. Group discussions function not only as therapy but also as forums where students and teachers can achieve a dialogue in which they raise questions of interpretations and, optimally, reach intersubjectively shared meanings about their interpretation. Nowadays it is virtually a dogma that the qualitative road to theory is through analytic induction. Interestingly, students do not deal with the idea of analytic induction.