[Sigia-l] Who said this?

alex at shelter.nu alex at shelter.nu
Mon Mar 8 23:12:52 EST 2004


Ziya quoted:
> "Number fetishism leads usability studies astray by focusing on
> statistical analyses that are often false, biased, misleading,
> or overly narrow. Better to emphasize insights and qualitative
> research."

Yes, that is a bit funny, given qualitative research is statistics,
but as always he's talking about his brilliant methods that obviously
are better than any other way of creating statistics. He's being very
qualitative about it, too.

> And can you spot the bleeding irony?

What, no offer of prizes?!


Alexander



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