July 1, 2016 by Dr. Jian Huang

In early 2015, the journal editors of Basic and Applied Social Psychology announced they would no longer publish papers that contain p-values. Naturepublished an article to further discuss the controversy revolving around p-value. It doesn’t matter which side you are on, it is obvious that we are all obsessed with p-values, because they have served as a rule of thumb for flagging noteworthy findings across the sciences. As the recent controversy shows, p-values are open to exploitation, which is sometimes known as “P hacking”.

May 23, 2016 by Dr. Jian Huang

When developing new strategic initiatives and guiding strategy deployment, decisions makers need a targeted and specific grasp of their customer and employee priorities. Advancements in online feedback collection and data analysis are yielding more and more sophisticated methods for gathering insights that lead to making more informed and better decisions. The Action Priorities Grid (APG) is one of the latest methods for doing just that.

March 9, 2016 by Dr. Jian Huang

More than ever before, architecture and design firms are hungry for client-centric data to gain a better understanding about a client’s needs and priorities. Firms that have a competitive edge are those that can demonstrate the capacity to better collect, decipher and validate a client’s complex project requirements.

February 10, 2016 by Dr. Jian Huang

One issue we see authors wrestle with when drafting an online survey is whether or not they should require participants to answer certain questions. The compulsion to force a response from someone is understandable. After all, the point of the survey is to collect as much information as possible and there are always certain questions in a survey that are more important to the survey author.

January 22, 2016 by Dr. Jian Huang

The old adage a picture is worth a thousand words is believed to have first been coined by Fred R. Barnard in a newspaper advertisement around 1921. The point of Barnard’s message was to emphasize that using imagery in advertisements would yield better results than words alone. There is a simple truth to this statement which has been quoted time and time again when speaking to the impact imagery can have when there is a need to convey a fair amount of information quickly or succinctly. Sometimes a picture is just better at telling a story.

December 10, 2015 by Dr. Jian Huang

Many manufacturing and supply chain companies have “safety” as a key part of their corporate mission. Most implement successful training programs and make use of the latest equipment to insure a safe working environment and increase productivity, but the safety program isn’t complete unless you gather and measure feedback from employees at all levels of the organization. You stand to waste a lot of time and money by not taking the extra step of gathering insight into the company’s culture of safety.

November 19, 2015 by Dr. Jian Huang

The insight you get from a survey means more when you know more about who is providing the feedback and the context from which they provide it. There are a couple of ways to get this level of detail.