Q methodology

a set of research methods used to study how people think or feel about a topic. It includes, among other methods, Q-technique factor analysis, which attempts to identify shared ways of thinking; and Q sorts, in which participants are given statements about people and topics and asked to sort them into categories. Compare R methodology.

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December 26th 2024

syntax

n. the set of rules that describes how words and phrases in a language are arranged into grammatical sentences, or the branch of linguistics that studies such rules. With morphology, syntax is one of the two traditional subdivisions of grammar. —syntactic or syntactical adj.