Observing an interview

Observing, purely observing, a researcher taking an interview. Educational. What did I learn?

• The hour is gone before you know it
• Opportunities for probing are so easily missed
• It is not a monologue; it is a conversation
• Repeat, summarize and probe
• People speak abstract and in metaphors
• Making a person angry helps (to a certain limit of course)

Ok. Interesting to learn more about open interviewing. But I also learned something else…