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<div class="">I take Cecil’s answer differently. I think it is valuable. </div>
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<div class="">Questionnaires are developed by people who think they know what the question is. They are hammers which are useful if you are confident that the house must next be built by nailing rather than sawing or painting, and you must also be confident
that the task at hand is building a house rather than constructing a fortifying wall or making dinner. </div>
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<div class="">The discipline of anthropology and the practice of ethnography in particular (in my limited engineer’s understanding) employs observation rather than probing with a defined tool. </div>
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<div class="">I think that Cecil is saying that more people should learn to listen. I agree.</div>
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<div class="">Tami</div>
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<div class="">On May 27, 2017, at 5:49 AM, Ronal W. Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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Cecil, list, Crispin:
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<div class="">On May 25, 2017, at 11:28 PM, Cecil Cook <<a href="mailto:cec1863@gmail.com" class="">cec1863@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px">Dear Ron and list,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px">Something went wrong with my post to the bio-energy list. Here it is cleaned up. Excuse me! </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I do not typically use questionnaires when I work because I find that they tend to generate false data which often does not tell us about what stove users and operators hold dear to their hearts. So anthropologists do their best to
observe the behavior of stove users while operating their traditional stoves to heat their homes, cook food and perform other kinds of income generating work. My role is not one of asking questions. My role is to figure out what questions are foremost in the
minds of the stove operators and buyers and to gradually assemble an overview of what the stove using/buying public perceive to be important, what they most appreciate about their stoves or - what is the hierarchy of values which guide their judgments about
good or bad stoves. </div>
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