[Sigia-l] card sort order effects

Chiara Fox chiara at chiarafox.com
Fri Aug 1 17:46:36 EDT 2003


I would mix it up. For half of the participants do the card sorting first.
For the second half do it last. That way you'll "even out" any type of
bias.

-Chiara

> Apart from one source that says card sorting should be done before
> participants have seen the site at all, we haven't found any guidelines
> or research on this issue. We realize that some order effects are going
> to bias our results regardless. But if anyone here has experience with
> this issue and found that a particular order works better, please e-mail
> me. I'll summarize the results and post them to the list.





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