Avoiding Analysis Bias in Global Research Studies

Global market research is susceptible to many types of analysis bias, and three of the big ones are confirmation bias, inattentional blindness, and cultural bias. While many forms of bias… Continue reading Avoiding Analysis Bias in Global Research Studies

Do Business Execs Trust Your Methodology Recommendations?

As market researchers, we are often asked to recommend methodologies that answer specific business needs. In the old days, we would often default to the tried and true: surveys, focus… Continue reading Do Business Execs Trust Your Methodology Recommendations?

Would You Rather Be a Market Researcher…or a Fly?

Social Media Listening Lessons from Microsoft Would a market researcher rather be a spider, a bee or a fly? A fly, of course! Article Synopsis, “Market research at the speed of social… Continue reading Would You Rather Be a Market Researcher…or a Fly?

Qualitative Research Demand & Chainsaw Juggling: Look Out for Hard-Core Qual

My hypothesis is that over the next year we will see strong demand for qualitative research, but it will skew to what we might call hard-core qual. That is, projects that are using qualitative research with rigorous attention to methodological and analytical execution. Thus, researchers will be expected to deliver projects that meets the persistent needs for scale and speed while also being rigorous.

Organizations that embrace customer-centric, data driven decision making (which is most of them) often do value qual. But as these organization have become more data-centric, their business decision makers have become more aware of data reliability concerns. Thus, it’s not surprising that while we are seeing strong demand for qual, we are also seeing higher expectations about the methodological rigor with which it conducted.

Up the Quality of Your Qualitative Data Analysis

Have you ever had difficulty creating reports based on interview, focus group, or ethnographic research results? buy nolvadex online buy nolvadex no prescription generic You aren’t alone. Analysis and reporting… Continue reading Up the Quality of Your Qualitative Data Analysis

Are Your Qualitative Research Reports Damaged by Researcher Bias?

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Don’t be the researcher who relies on their personal recall to bang out a report in a couple of hours—that researcher is not leveraging this wonderful resource, and is likely injecting their own biases into the process. Indeed, researcher bias is a very real phenomenon….

It’s Opening Night for Your Qualitative Data: Is it Ready to be a Star?

What’s your preferred approach to analyzing qualitative information from focus groups and in-depth interviews (IDIs)? An unstructured approach? Or a structured approach? It’s a reasonable debate. What’s not a rational… Continue reading It’s Opening Night for Your Qualitative Data: Is it Ready to be a Star?