Week 3: Interviews

Question 1

The Interview Society

Answer 1

proliferation of interviewing for both qual and quant collection, can be for obtaining rich, in depth experiences or point scale % data

Question 2

Structured Interview

Answer 2

all participants are asked the same questions, in the same order, with limited options for responses, recording everything to a coding scheme that is pre-established
should be objective and neutral in nature with similar settings and environments

Question 3

Unstructured Interviews

Answer 3

personal, sometimes emotional interactional and empathetic style of gathering data that typically just has a topic and the conversation flows
more control to the participant and less of a power imbalance

Question 4

Pros of Unstructured Interviews

Answer 4

more freedom to patient
less of a power imbalance
more flexible in the data collection
accessing complex knowledge from an insider without biases from questioning being leading or irrelevant

Question 5

Cons of Unstructured Interviews

Answer 5

can go off track real fast causing irrelevant information to be collected
can become very emotional and the interview is not really a therapeutic experience

Question 6

One-to-One Format

Answer 6

duh, but it forms an intimacy from mutual self-disclosure and mostly used for vulnerable populations and emotional research
in depth data collection that is personal

Question 7

Interview Proxies

Answer 7

someone who is close to the participant who can communicate changes and relevant information
can introduce bias as it is information from a secondary source

Question 8

Criteria for Interview Proxies

Answer 8

AVOID IF YOU CAN
typically only used on people with severe cognitive defects, speech impediments who cannot communicate another way easily
should be avoided in in-depth interviews and emotional research

Question 9

Focus Groups

Answer 9

multiple participants that govern profound experiences about social aspects and society that allows group dynamics to show

Question 10

Conjoint Interviews

Answer 10

in-depth interviews that gather data but also offer additional perspectives, less likely to introduce environmental and context differences to data
multiple avenues of relational inquiry, cross-cultural considerations can be made, and for people who cannot or will not talk to researchers alone

Question 11

Managing Disasters

Answer 11

plan and predict for prevention of disasters, use and prep for interpreter
minimize irrelevant information
dry runs for researchers to work out the kinks
should allow comfort and participants to have supports if it is an emotional research

Question 12

Oral and Life History Research

Answer 12

life experiences as lived, based from their perspective

allows for casual thinking, highlighting the main important parts and focusing on their lens