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Learn the lingo: Intercept Recruitment
Intercept Recruitment || What is it? Interrupting someone digitally (via pop-up window, chat, banner ad, etc.) or physically (in-person) to answer a few initial screening questions, to assess their potential as a research participant...

Learn the lingo: Intercept Interview/Survey
Intercept Interview/Survey || What is it? Interrupting someone digitally (via pop-up window, chat, banner ad, etc) or physically (in-person), while they are engaged in a specific activity relevant...

Learn the lingo: Primary research
Primary Research || What is it? Primary Research can be a quantitative research and/or qualitative research study commissioned to gather first-hand feedback directly from or…

An AI Transparency Framework?
This week, Josh LaMar, co-founder of Amplinate, published a compelling article exploring a critical question: Should insights professionals disclose when they’re using AI tools …

Learn the lingo: Sample
Sample / Sampling || What is it? Sampling has different meanings in quantitative and qualitative research. In quant, it refers to the people or data that is researched or sampled. The…
Learn the lingo: Screening
Screener / Screening || What is it? A questionnaire designed to qualify whether potential research participants are eligible for a study based on the research goals. It is a filtering process based…

Learn the lingo: Recruiting
Recruiting / Recruitment || What is it? Recruitment is the process of identifying and finding research participants who meet a set of predetermined criteria that define the profile of the desired…

Learn the lingo: Transcript / Transcription
Transcript / Transcription || What is it? A written verbatim record of every word said during the course of qualitative research fieldwork. Typically transcripts include timestamps and a record of who was…

Learn the lingo: Topline Report
Topline Report || What is it? A written summary of the research goals and key learnings. Sometimes it also includes other contextual information, such as links to pertinent study artifacts, details about…

Learn the lingo: Survey
Survey / aka Questionnaire || What is it? A survey contains a set of baseline questions about a particular topic to collect self-reported and self-recorded data from a large number of individuals in a…

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