[Theforum] Re: questionnaire (was: Rambling)

[Martin]

Luther, Ron wrote on 31/10/01 9:14 pm

>That's one of the "artsy" areas in survey design and analysis ...
>working with 'open-ended questions'.
>
>Basically you read through all of them 40 or 50 times and then keep
>dividing them into piles/categories until the categorization becomes
>fairly stable.

Alternative way if you've actually got the people in the same
room - get (brief headline) comments on PostIt notes, stick
them on a board, then (collectively) group for common themes.

Finally, give everyone the opportunity to move stuff about
and dispute whether the common themes represent what
they meant in the first place.

It works surprisingly well.

Cheers
Martin

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