January 2012
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Nine Hopefully Awesome Things At The Research 2012...
The tagline for Research 2012 is “The festival of ideas”. Can it live up to that billing? I’m hopeful: the MRS conference has carved out a place in the industry calendar as a place where new thinking, practical demonstrations and an unexpected playfulness can thrive - of all the research conferences it’s the one I’d most recommend a non-researcher goes to.
Of course...
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2012 (2): The House Always Wins
The most memorable conversation I had at the ESOMAR 3D conference this year wasn’t about research at all: it was about poker. Josh, from BrainJuicer’s marketing team, is a keen online poker player, and explained the extent to which online poker in particular is a percentage game – playing for incremental gains on multiple virtual tables. All the regular players, he said, are using apps and...
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2012 (1): New Years' On A Rational Planet
I had planned to post this before new year, but was too busy doing actual research (how gauche). But like Christmas decorations and turkey leftovers, year-end predictions posts ought not to be showing up on January 5th. So let’s pretend this ISN’T the first in a series of ten (ten!) such things.
Even if I WAS about to write a predictions post, I would be using this second paragraph for caveats. In...