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In an interesting study, researchers at UBC have found that customers express higher satisfaction when they’re served by white men than by women or people of colour — even when their behaviour is exactly the same. Marketing professor Karl Aquino expressed surprise at the findings, as he told The Globe and Mail
“We had thought there [...]

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Categories: Research Methods · customer satisfaction · feminism · methods · qualitative research · quantitative research · sociology · surveys

I have been thinking a great deal lately about the transformative effects of digital phenomena (See an earlier post I wrote about music on cell phones).
Digital text differs greatly from analogue text. For example, see my text below.

I wanted to complete this post entirely in analogue format but I found entirely too labourious. So add [...]

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Categories: design · design scripts · discourse analysis

Those of you out there who’ve tried it know: recruiting research participants is HARD. Here are a few insights from the research to help you with better recuitment.

Personalized contact with respondents, followed by pre-contact and aggressive follow-up phone calls *: Don’t count on a form letter, email or random tweet to do the job. Capitalize [...]

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Categories: Research Methods · methods · qualitative research · quantitative research · sample size · survey · surveys

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