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How to use guided meditation to achieve research Nirvana

Spiritual practices often lead to introspection and perspective. We explored the method of guided meditation to help balding men unlock their deepest fears around hair loss using some of these techniques, which led us to some unexpected insights.

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2017: Back to the future

Authors: Gauri Malhotra, Vivian Gonsalves, Sushma Panchawati, Devika Johar

October 6, 2017

Multimode, global scale usage

What is the impact of using 4-, 5-, 7-, 10- and 100-point scales on the internal consistency and reliability of survey data? What is the impact of using rich media and plain scales on the consistency and reliability of mobile survey data? Does the...

Catalogue: Congress 2013: Think Big

Authors: Annie Pettit, Melanie Courtright, Kartik Pashupati, Roddy Knowles

Company: Research Now SSI

September 26, 2013

A healthy dose of normality

This presentation demonstrates that most patient research may at best be dumbing down what we can potentially understand and at its worst reaching the wrong conclusions. The implication is that a different approach is needed and this presentation...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2010: Trends And Innovation Booster

Author: Andrew Vincent

March 3, 2010

Stock market activity

This paper shows how methods traditionally used by market researchers have potential application to understand and predict stated future shareholder behavior in the stock market. The market researcher makes two distinct contributions to this new...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Samuel Rabino, Don Lowry

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

September 17, 2006

Myth or reality?

This paper discusses London Underground's continuous Customer attitude research program: known as the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). It is written in the spirit of describing the genesis of an actionable management information tool: one that now...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: The Ideal Product, The Ideal Costumer, The Ideal Company?

Authors: Mark G. J. Hodson, Robert Falconer

June 15, 1993

Qualitative research, quantitative research, interaction, integration and linkage

The paper suggests qualitative research is due for a reappraisal and this should take place in a broad context that considers both qualitative and quantitative research. It discusses qualitative/quantitative distinction and a two-level, six- category...

Catalogue: Qualitative Research 1993: A Critical Review Of Methods And Applications

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1993

Approaches to tracking the impact of national destination advertising

The approach adopted to assessing the effectiveness of national destination advertising, where the final sale is not made in an easily measured fashion, should ideally be multi- facetted. In the case of major changes in advertising campaigns made by...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Travel And Tourism Transition

Author: Ciaran Tuite

June 15, 1991

Internationalisation of qualitative research

This paper reports on a series of projects conducted in Europe, the U.S, the Middle and Far East, designed to explore the practicalities and benefits of standardising International Qualitative research. The problems facing standardisation of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

September 1, 1990

Qualitative research and motivation research

Qualitative research is usually exploratory or diagnostic. It involves small numbers of people who are not sampled on a probabilistic basis. They may. however, be selected to represent different categories of people from a given target market or...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Peter Sampson

August 1, 1986