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Subject: Re: cool cars!
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John,
Yes I have used joint and group Q sorting, and similar smaller scale rank=
 ordering tasks done collectively, that is, I've done it myself and have =
students who have used these approaches. It's a really powerful technique=
 of 'interviewing' or for structuring discussion in a 'focus group', as i=
t creates conditions where people have to justify their choices, making t=
alk much more rhetorical. We have even used it to help generate Q sort it=
ems in our work on defining the concourse.
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However, the main point is that the clip is a great way to help participa=
nts and students get an initial understanding of what a Q sort is doing. =
I like it particularly as it is a great way to stress the ordinal nature =
of the data we collect - that it is rank ordering and not measuring.

John, please can you use larger type, my eyes are not as good as yours!

Wendy


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From: Q Methodology Network on behalf of John Bradley  at 
Sent: Fri 29/05/2009 11:37
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Re: cool cars!



The Cool Wall for sorting cars that Wendy is referring appears each week =
on the TV programme Top Gear. (I promise you I only watch it when my teen=
age son is at home and takes control of the television).=20

I hadn't thought of it as a sorting activity before, but clearly it is. H=
owever it includes some interesting methodological variations that we mig=
ht want to reflect on. Essentially it is a group sort - in that the three=
 presenters argue about where a car belongs on the sorting wall. One of t=
hem might place it at the 'super-cool' end, only for the others to argue =
about it and decide they want to place it somewhere else. I wonder if any=
one has used Q as a group task before? As such it changes the nature of t=
he activity from one where we could explore the varied viewpoints on cars=
, to one in which the group has to settle on a single viewpoint. Interest=
ingly, this supposed consensus is usually reached when the biggest and lo=
udest presenter (Jeremy Clarkson) takes control and tells the other two t=
hat his viewpoint is correct and theirs are wrong. So it becomes an inter=
esting activity for exploring power relationships, but like in the rest o=
f life the smaller less aggressive members have their viewpoints stamped =
on and ignored.=20


Dr John Bradley
Head of Inclusion Services
and Principal Educational Psychologist
Children & Young People's Services
Nottinghamshire County Council=20





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I have a doctoral student, Phill Dyson, who is doing a Q study as part of=
 his doctoral research (probably). Part of his coursework is to enter a p=
oster competition, and he's doing it on Q. Once it's finished I'll ask hi=
m to post it for you guys.

But along the way he showed me someting interesting from BBC television, =
part of a programme about cars. It's a 'cool wall' where the presenters d=
iscuss cars in relation to four categories - from 'seriously un-cool' to =
'sub-zero'. To all effects a Q sort! You can find the programme at http:/=
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8xtJBUrfaLA  . I'm loath to attech a picture as it might cause problems. =
But it is fun.
Wendy



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From: Q Methodology Network on behalf of BROWN, STEVEN  at 
Sent: Wed 27/05/2009 21:32
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Norwegian Q conference



Reference was recently made to the forthcoming Norwegian Q conference, sc=
heduled for November 19-20 in Stavanger, Norway.

For those interested, a conference website has now been established at ht=
tp://www.uis.no/Q-konferanse (text in Norwegian).

The conference will be keynoted by Diane Montgomery of Oklahoma State and=
 Susan Ramlo of Akron University.  Designed in part to promote the use of=
 Q among Norwegian social and behavioral scientists, the conference is ex=
pected to result in a volume comprised of selected revised papers.

Persons interested in attending should contact Ingunn Storksen  or Arlene Thorsen , both of the Cen=
tre for Behavioural Research, University of Stavanger.


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