TECHNIQUES
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All techniques are instrumental not fundamental. We pride ourselves of having the unique ability to not discover nails, just because we know how to handle a hammer. Just as well, we will use a pneumatic screwdriver if we can find one that fits the screw and ... is affordable. We have been interpreting collages for 15 years before we discovered this was called metaphor elicitation... So we are not about fancy names on straightforward (academic or practical) techniques but let's just say we know our stuff or we know people who know the stuff better than we do....
To give you an idea of what we have up our sleeves, here's a glossary. Walk the grid with us.
ANCOVA
ANCOVA, or analysis of covariance is a general linear model with one continuous explanatory variable and one or more factors. ANCOVA is a merger of ANOVA and regression for continuous variables. ANCOVA tests whether certain factors have an effect after removing the variance for which quantitative predictors (covariates) account. The inclusion of covariates can increase statistical power because it accounts for some of the variability.
ANOVA
In statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA, or-sometimes-A.N.O.V.A.) is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different explanatory variables. The initial techniques of the analysis of variance were developed by the statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher in the 1920s and 1930s, and is sometimes known as Fisher's ANOVA or Fisher's analysis of variance, due to the use of Fisher's F-distribution as part of the test of statistical significance.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. It is holistic in two senses: it is concerned with all human beings across times and places, and with all dimensions of humanity (evolutionary, biophysical, sociopolitical, economic, cultural, psychological, etc.).
Archetype
An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior. This article is about personality archetypes, as described in literature analysis and the study of the psyche.
In the analysis of personality, the term archetype is often broadly used to refer to
- a stereotype-personality type observed multiple times, especially an oversimplification of such a type; or
- an epitome-personality type exemplified, especially the "greatest" such example.