Theme 4 Post Reflection

This week we have a workshop instead of a seminar like the previous weeks.

The seminar was about qualitative methods and quantitative methods and the pros and cons about each method. This sounds really simple but our workshopleader Olle Bälter went really deep with what he thought about qualitative and quantitative methods.

Instead of discussing openly like we've done in the previous seminars, we went about it in a more workshop kind of way. We constructed 4 groups with all of the participants, roughly about 30 people. These 4 groups discussed internally and then competed against each other in a type of game through coming up with the most unique answers and through finding answers that Olle himself hadn't thought about.

What i liked about this was that we got to hear a lot of thoughts from the other groups that me and my group didn't think about. It is refreshing to hear other peoples thoughts when you have discussed something internally for a time. You become quite shielded from new thoughts in some kind of way.

Generally i can't really say that i learned so much new about the different methods but i do believe that repetition always is good! However, I did learn a lot when Olle talked about his own work and research. He told us that he conducted a questionnaire in 2003 that came to be his most cited work. What was special with this questionnaire was that everything was interactive and that you got feedback in the form of moving objects and visual presentation instead of just text based answers. This was something new in 2003 and is still lacking in many web surveys like google forms for example. This made everything extremely intuitive and i personally believe that the will to finish a survey or questionnaire becomes greater with a service like this.