Qualitative Researcher Gifts

The client would prefer fewer open-ended questions.

'FOCUS, people, FOCUS!'

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

The Jeopardy of Progress

Pounding speeds up the computer.

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"Good boy."

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

2021

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Fear/Knowledge

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

UK/US Free Trade Deal

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

'According to our statistics department, 78.93 of the statistics they produce are worthless.'

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

Wally Begins research for his thesis entitled "who's a good dog?"

"She's done it! The formula for work-life balance!"

"Finches, don't look now, but there's a creepy guy staring at our beaks."

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

Burning the midnight oil.

'So...you THINK you have what it takes to be a scientist...?'

"Meet the scribe"

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."