[Sigia-l] Junk science or just lazy?

[Ziya Oz]

"As part of our ongoing research of the UX environment, we recently took a
closer look at the six major analyst firms (Aberdeen, AMR, Forrester,
Gartner, IDC, and Yankee). We were hoping to determine if the analysts were
paying much attention to user experience, so we searched a variety of
UX-related terms (21, to be precise) on their respective web sites. We then
looked at which firms paid attention to which UX topics, how these firms
stacked up against each other, and how they compared to the web's overall UX
consciousness."

<http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/announcements/2007/08/user_experience_and_the
_analys.php>

I think I have misplaced my "Lazy Science, 17th edition" so I'm fuzzy on
this and I know it's easy to write a few lines of code to scrape concordance
data from web sites, but since when did word frequency counting become
synonymous with analytical insight?

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Ziya

³You can¹t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus²