Comments on: Qualitative research – looking for the inconsistencies http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/17/qualitative-research-looking-for-the-inconsistencies/ Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta's Weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dina http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/17/qualitative-research-looking-for-the-inconsistencies/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Dina Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:38:16 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/17/qualitative-research-looking-for-the-inconsistencies/#comment-37 Hi Stuart - good connection with scenarios and social media! One of the things I constantly heard at the women's forum is that there is so much info overload, where's the time to listen. I believe this is one of the reasons we tend to feel comfort in the echo chambers. I think time for listening must be written into our jobs! Hi Stuart – good connection with scenarios and social media! One of the things I constantly heard at the women’s forum is that there is so much info overload, where’s the time to listen. I believe this is one of the reasons we tend to feel comfort in the echo chambers. I think time for listening must be written into our jobs!

]]> By: Stuart http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/17/qualitative-research-looking-for-the-inconsistencies/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Stuart Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:49:28 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/17/qualitative-research-looking-for-the-inconsistencies/#comment-31 I've often found the same thing with groups developing scenarios. You have to listen very carefully and record all the "uncertainties" that might be raised. Often later, on reflection we find "price of postage stamps" which seemed a notation to be a key uncertainty. In a larger group... the same statement "re washing and hands" may have had a larger audience. We seem to be working with the same types of emergent thinking when reading new blogs all the time. The problem for us all is to stop listening to what we know... already. I’ve often found the same thing with groups developing scenarios. You have to listen very carefully and record all the “uncertainties” that might be raised. Often later, on reflection we find “price of postage stamps” which seemed a notation to be a key uncertainty.

In a larger group… the same statement “re washing and hands” may have had a larger audience. We seem to be working with the same types of emergent thinking when reading new blogs all the time. The problem for us all is to stop listening to what we know… already.

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