Comments on: Q Methodology http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/ Yes, just the letter Q. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:49:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Steven Brown http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-72592 Steven Brown Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:30:24 +0000 http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-72592 The term 'Q methodology' is in my Google Alert, so your message popped up. So, what's your 'initial psychological study' all about? The term ‘Q methodology’ is in my Google Alert, so your message popped up. So, what’s your ‘initial psychological study’ all about?

]]> By: Eskoala http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-72752 Eskoala Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:30:06 +0000 http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-72752 First things first, most of the reason I mention it is because my surname is Q and I was pleased by the coincidence. Having said that, I'm trying to research beauty in music in a cross-cultural context. What I need is to assess several people of different cultures' aprreciation of beauty in music by questionnaire. I was looking for a way of determining how much they agree overall versus how much they agree within the cultural groups. I found some useful statistical methods in <a href="http://fmx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/6" rel="nofollow">Susan C. Weller's paper</a>. The reason it's an initial study is because my field is more artificial intelligence than psychology or social science: I'm hoping to train a computer algorithm to recognise and maybe even explain beauty in music. However, we need to know if there is any cross-cultural validity to the idea first of all. Hope that makes sense and I'm not totally barking up the wrong tree! Thanks for your interest. Claire Q First things first, most of the reason I mention it is because my surname is Q and I was pleased by the coincidence. Having said that, I’m trying to research beauty in music in a cross-cultural context.

What I need is to assess several people of different cultures’ aprreciation of beauty in music by questionnaire. I was looking for a way of determining how much they agree overall versus how much they agree within the cultural groups. I found some useful statistical methods in Susan C. Weller’s paper.

The reason it’s an initial study is because my field is more artificial intelligence than psychology or social science: I’m hoping to train a computer algorithm to recognise and maybe even explain beauty in music. However, we need to know if there is any cross-cultural validity to the idea first of all.

Hope that makes sense and I’m not totally barking up the wrong tree! Thanks for your interest.

Claire Q

]]> By: Steven Brown http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-77044 Steven Brown Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:33:59 +0000 http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog/2008/12/q-methodology/#comment-77044 Here are a few hopefully pertinent references in which Q methodology is used to examine some aspect of music. A couple of others come to mind, but I'd have to look them up. Q has also been used to examine poetry and other forms of literature, as well as aesthetics. It is limitless in its applications. There are various cross-cultural studies, but I would also have to look these up if you have interest. Maxwell, Jennifer P. (1999). The violence of the night: The perception of trauma in a song. Operant Subjectivity, 22, 12-30. Maxwell, Jennifer P. (1999, spring). The use of performance art and Q methodology for increasing mediator recognition of trauma and domestic violence. Mediation Quarterly, 16(3), 269-285. Oehrle, Elizabeth (1989). Educators’ attitude to philosophies of music education: A Q study. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 100, 86-89. Seddon, Frederick A., & O’Neill, Susan A. (2004). The application of Q-methodology to the study of criteria used by adolescents in the evaluation of their musical compositions. Musicae Scientiae: The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 8, 207-229. Very unusual surname. Did you obtain this by choice (like Malcolm X) or by inheritance? By the way, I see that the Weller article is in the journal Field Methods, in which an article on Q methodology followed by an intellectual exchange is currently in press. Steven Here are a few hopefully pertinent references in which Q methodology is used to examine some aspect of music. A couple of others come to mind, but I’d have to look them up. Q has also been used to examine poetry and other forms of literature, as well as aesthetics. It is limitless in its applications. There are various cross-cultural studies, but I would also have to look these up if you have interest.

Maxwell, Jennifer P. (1999). The violence of the night: The perception of trauma in a song. Operant Subjectivity, 22, 12-30.

Maxwell, Jennifer P. (1999, spring). The use of performance art and Q methodology for increasing mediator recognition of trauma and domestic violence. Mediation Quarterly, 16(3), 269-285.

Oehrle, Elizabeth (1989). Educators’ attitude to philosophies of music education: A Q study. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 100, 86-89.

Seddon, Frederick A., & O’Neill, Susan A. (2004). The application of Q-methodology to the study of criteria used by adolescents in the evaluation of their musical compositions. Musicae Scientiae: The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 8, 207-229.

Very unusual surname. Did you obtain this by choice (like Malcolm X) or by inheritance? By the way, I see that the Weller article is in the journal Field Methods, in which an article on Q methodology followed by an intellectual exchange is currently in press.

Steven

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