The interviews were distributed as follows to match the demographics of New York City according to the 2010 census as closely as possible Location Brooklyn 30% Queens 27% Manhattan 20% Bronx 18% Staten Island 6% Ethnicity White 37% Hispanic…
The Process
Interview Question
Getting the Interview Interviewees were not pre-prepared. I randomly stopped them and asked them to talk to me. All interviewees were asked their permission to record, never asked their last name or any contact details and were offered the opportunity…
Posted in Interview, The Process
The problem of grouping
Quantitative analysis The object was to collect 200 stories, and through reading all of them maybe to find some revelation. But the geeky side of me couldn’t resist some analytics. So immediately after each interview I rated each person on…
Posted in Groups and Themes, The Process
The Sample Set
Coming from a business background in technology and data systems (and with no real knowledge of theology) I approached the challenge rather methodically. I thought if I was going to interview people it would be more interesting to get an…
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The people I met
The people I was amazed at how much people thought about god and how deep some of the ‘theology’ I found. As I said before this is not about uncovering the whacky or extraordinary, on the contrary for me the…
Posted in The people, The Process