http://www.cheskin.com/blog/perspectives/ en-us http://www.cheskin.com/blog/blog/archives/000975.html In recent days there has been quite a bit of hubbub about the use of anthropologists to support the American military in local involvement in Afghanistan ("Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones", New York Times, November 5, 2007). Anthropologists, public policy experts, military experts, and even design anthropologists have weighed... Methods & Techniques Tommy Stinson 2007-10-12T12:24:50-08:00 http://www.cheskin.com/blog/blog/archives/000940.html Last weekend, the Washington Post published an interesting piece about an experiment in culture. Joshua Bell, a highly-acclaimed concert violinist, put on a baseball cap and casual clothes and posed as a busker in the L'Enfant Plaza station of the Washington, D.C. Metrorail. His goal (or rather, the goal of... Innovation & Design Tommy Stinson 2007-04-12T09:30:25-08:00 http://www.cheskin.com/blog/blog/archives/000879.html Last Thursday, Steve Portigal introduced a great cautionary note on the dangers of bad (read: quick and uninformed) survey design. Steve's argument was that design educators do their students a disservice by implying that quantitative online surveying is easy and quick. That it's important to know that a survey is... Methods & Techniques Tommy Stinson 2007-02-14T08:53:15-08:00 http://www.cheskin.com/blog/blog/archives/000866.html Sometimes debates emerge that challenge my long-held assumptions and prompt me to “go back to the beginning” to examine why those assumptions are held. Recently I was reading a discussion led by Grant McCracken’s blog on “why culture matters” (http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/). McCracken cites both sides of the argument - that understanding... Meaningful Experience Tommy Stinson 2006-12-06T16:16:10-08:00