Asking respondents to sort items such as pictures, colours, or other visual materials is a well-established practice in the Q-methodology. I'm wondering if anyone can share experience with asking respondents to sort maps. For instance, a series of maps showing scenarios of different land uses. I'd appreciate any input from the community, from published works to ideas for method development -or words of caution.
They appear to get it mixed up so I decided to split it up to be like the likert scale.
I’ve used presential and online sorting in my research, presential was much better becouse it created an empathy, i’ve printed regular black and white cards, all in the same size and format as my map. I’ve also take with me some fixed support so they could posicionate it easily in the map.
Hi Diane,
Could you shed more light on the presenting sorting you used? I'll also wish to know if there are freely available online sorting websites I could use for postgraduate research.