[Sigia-l] card sorting: dealing with multiple placements

[Sean Lawerence]

oops!!  meant a=0.05!!  Good lord, what poor results would be derived from
50%??

Thanks,

Sean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Lawerence" <slawrence at lucidvagary.com>
To: "Derek R" <derek at derekrogerson.com>; "Sigia-l" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] card sorting: dealing with multiple placements


> So who would you reccomend?  I've seen design majors in this role most
often
> who think they are qualified because they read a book on ethnography?
> Having a background in psych, I am aware of the nature of behavioral
> research and I would say that the relevance to performing user-tests is
the
> granularity of the results you are expecting.  If you are looking to get a
> very precise result (a=0.5) through statistical analysis, then yes a
> behavioral or statistical background would be appropriate.  If you are
> trying to complie users responses to an interaction to establish a
baseline,
> perhaps someone with MLIS or a design background would suffice.
>
> my 2 cents and claiming no level of authority in the matter,
>
> Sean
>
> > This course is about "LIS research" Michael ("questions in library and
> > information science"), and has very little relevance to performing
> > user-tests and/or conducting user-research (beyond glossing over some
> > techniques).
>
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