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EVERYTHING

AMERICANS THINK

Despite seeking out experiences, I consider myself fairly introverted. So, when I landed a job where all I would do is talk to people on the phone for hours, I saw this as the chance to give myself confidence in my interpersonal skills.

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The American Voices Project is the largest qualitative study ever attempted, sponsored by Stanford's Center for Poverty and Inequality and Princeton's Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Childhood Well-Being.

 

I talked to people for 30+ hours, with people all across America to learn about their lives and the needs of their communities. Interviews could take over 4 hours if the interviewee really loved talking, and it taught me patience. 

I also qualitatively coded for the crisis research reports that studied effects of COVID-19 on aspects of life, which will likely be here soon.

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I can't talk about what I specifically learned in the interviews, but I can say that we should give the time to listen to people and value the intricacies of their experience that can't be expressed in mere demographic information or multiple-choice survey questions.

 

People are more than just words - they are the juxtaposition of intersecting factors that somehow make sense together. Perhaps that is how you should view this site that I have put together...

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