Hør dog hvad de siger - Note-to-Self: Trials & Errors

Interviews are dangerously deceptive. They give us answers to our questions from people
from whom we would otherwise never get such answers. What I believe I have shown in this
paper is that the quantity of such answers comes at the price of quality. That is, if you in an
interview ask a person a question about something they have never given a thought, you will
(unfortunately) get an answer, but the answer might not be an answer to the same question,
you believe you asked.
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