[Sigia-l] Card sorting

[Eric Scheid]

On 26/4/06 12:35 PM, "Malahat Hosseini" <mhosseini at sfu.ca> wrote:

> For instance I can see the case of someone putting everything that has the
> word " information" in it in one category; but I am sure the same person
> might not look for those items all in one category when faced with an
> organized system...I wonder if I have been able to convey what I mean.

Perhaps this is part of the art of card sorting -- try not to prejudice the
grouping by what you write on the cards. So, instead of writing "information
about X", "information about Y", (etc) use descriptive phrases. Mix it up.
Draw on a thesaurus. Throw in some duplicates, just worded differently ..
this is also a technique used in composing surveys to identify aberrant
respondents.



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