The 'meta' nature of the theory is further reinforced by the fact that sense- making entails four levels of interpretation (or as Dervin puts it, 'quadruple hermeneutic’
- all research entails interpretations
- in research into humans the focus is on interpretations of interpretations made by the people studied
-however, sense-making focuses not on interpretations per se but on the processes of interpreting - i e. how interpretations are made. The focus is therefore not on interpretations (the end product) made by researchers, but on the interpreting (the processes) of researchers interpreting not the interpretations of others, but rather
-the interpreting of humans -i.e. how humans interpret interpretations