Two Nerds Talking Research with Wine #2
I chat with Dr. Sarah McKenzie about whether you should expect your research to validate your ideas.
Many clients wonder how long it will take to get quality custom research done. It depends on a variety of things, but here’s my take.
Your goal with research shouldn’t be to confirm you’re right — it should be to prove yourself wrong. Thanks to Edison Research VP Tom Webster for inspiring this one.
In this video I share one of my favorite resources for people who are building, reviewing or interpreting survey research – a little book by Amy Pettit called “People Aren’t Robots”.
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…
Net Promoter Score is a very common metric, but do you know how it’s calculated and what it tells you? Learn more in this video!
In some situations, balancing your survey data may be appropriate to ensure you’ve got a representative sample.