Hi Guys,
So by now you are all getting started on your preparation for Assignment 1. You're quite lucky this semester, as Rob is asking each fo you to interview only 1 person. In past semesters we've asked each student to conduct 3 or 4 interviews. On the other hand, this means you will have the opportunity to be more in-depth and detailed in your analysis and interpretation.
The first thing you're all worrying about is the interview protocol. There are many ways to break down an interview protocol. Here is one example I found online:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/projects/edres/changingfaces/protocol/practical.htm
From my own research experience @ Monash, I had to do a number of things like:
· ethics approval from the institute
· individual consent from participants I was interviewing
· explanatory statement describing the purpose and outline of the research
· structured questions based on a particular framework I was using for my research
· transcribing the raw data I recorded
· follow ups to clarify any uncertainties
For the purpose of this assignment, I suggest at the very least a brief explanatory statement, followed by your question sets. Whether you structure your questions around the modeling framework, the biases you've read up on, a combination of both, or some other format is your choice.
You will need to include your interview protocol, and any raw data you gathered in the interview, in the appendix of your work.
That should be enough to get you underway. Make sure you've read Arnott's paper, A Taxonomy of Decision Biases:
http://moodle.monash.edu/file.php/545/Arnott_Bias_Taxonomy_Tech_Report.pdf
Don't freak out about it being 55 pages, the last 15 pages are references, and there are lots of diagrams and tables taking up lots of space. It's an easy read, I promise.
Good luck,
Reza
