No, You Shouldn’t Run Your Own Focus Groups
It’s not as easy as it looks, and running your own groups can affect the results.
Even if you’re not very familiar with research, you’ve heard the terms “quantitative” and “qualitative”. What’s the real difference? These terms refer to types of data — not necessarily to research approaches. Quantitative results are those you can count, that you can tabulate. These are either numbers you can work with mathematically or text…
Bots are the worst. And if you don’t know how to keep them out AND root them out, your data isn’t going to be reliable. Check out this week’s video to learn more and see a great little resource for help.
This episode is the first in a series with my special guest Dr. Sarah McKenzie. Today we’re discussing how to talk about research with people who don’t really understand research.
As exciting as it may be, you shouldn’t just dive right into analyzing your survey responses without doing some data cleaning first. The most common cleaning functions are available within many online survey platforms, and can keep you from including poor quality responses in your analysis.
There are pros and cons for both choices, and you may want to use different approaches for different respondent groups.
If you’re going to go to the effort of conducting thought leadership research, don’t let it be a one and done content initiative! You can do more with it.