[Sigia-l] card sorting

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On 
> Behalf Of Todd R.Warfel
> 
> On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 04:28 PM, Boniface Lau wrote:
> 
> > You yourself had already admitted that your paper does not
> > indicate *how* to sort items into groups. See:
> >
> > http://www.info-arch.org/hypermail/sigia-l/0306/0021print.html
> >
> > So I am not sure what to make of your above citation from that
> > same paper.
> 
> Well, let's try this again.
> 
>  From the archive above, I said:
> 
> "your task is to sort the stack of cards into like groups, which
> make sense to you. Once you are satisfied with the group, you should
> give that group a label that would make sense to you."
> 
> You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that that clearly
> speaks to instructions on how the exercise should run.

But we are talking about the *how* of "sorting items into groups".
Your paper does not address that.


> And the funny thing is, the participants don't need explicit
> instructions on "how to sort into groups," as sorting the "cards
> into like groups, which make sense to you" is sufficient enough.

As I had already indicated, the issue is NOT about instruction:

http://www.info-arch.org/hypermail/sigia-l/0306/0031print.html

The issue is about your claim that you could sort items into groups
without observing order. But you cannot even walk us through such
process. 


Boniface