השוואת שיטות

	Triad Test	Free Listing
תחום	Anthropology	Anthropology
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1988	1988
הוגה השיטה	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney; Borgatti)	Cognitive anthropology tradition (formalized by Weller & Romney; Borgatti)
סוג	Elicitation procedure for fine-grained perceived similarity	Elicitation procedure for the items and salience of a cultural domain
מקור מכונן	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742
כינויים	Triadic Comparison, Triads Task, Method of Triads, Triad Sorting	Free Lists, Free-List Task, Free Recall Listing, Freelisting
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	The triad test is an elicitation technique for measuring perceived similarity among the items of a cultural domain. Informants are shown items three at a time and asked to pick the one that is most different (or, equivalently, which two are most alike). Across many triads and many informants, the pattern of which items are repeatedly kept together yields a fine-grained similarity matrix that is analyzed with multidimensional scaling and clustering.	Free listing is a foundational elicitation technique in cognitive anthropology in which informants are asked to name, in any order, all the items they can think of that belong to a cultural domain — for example 'all the kinds of fruit' or 'all the things that can give you a cold.' Aggregating these lists reveals both the content of the domain (which items belong) and the salience of each item (how culturally central it is), inferred from how frequently and how early it is mentioned.