The Bunker welcomes guest blogger Susan Maxsween in this post. In this blog post she discusses the impact of Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) and it’s relationship to NCQA.

At the local Wegmans, here in Syracuse, shoppers may have noticed a new style of packaging for baby carrots. The carrots appear in packaging that resembles a potato chip bag, complete with attractive images and colors. Syracuse and Cincinnati were picked as test markets to roll out a re-branding campaign for baby-carrots launched by the carrot industry.

The Bunker covers the topic of Helicopter parents and their impact on market research in colleges and universities.

Thinking about using a research panel in Syracuse NY, Central NY, or Upstate, NY? The Bunker lists out 5 benefits and 5 concerns to think about before you do.

It’s the final day of Scale Week and what better than to give you 6 tips on what else? Scales.

Today, we put together some scaling errors and ways in which scales should not be used. These problems can lead to biased results, unintentional participant error and/or improper analysis.

It’s Day 3 of Scale Week and this post discusses the most popular scale used in Market Research – the Likert Scale. It’s the Great White of all things scales.

The Bunker takes a look at Semantic Differential Scaling on Day 2 of Scale Week. Semantic Differential Scaling tests attitudes between two adjectives.

Constant Sum Scaling is a method used to organize and sort a variety of options. The respondent is presented with a few options and given a number of points to allocate to each option to create a comparative importance for each option.

One of the most important objectives of market research is to develop new products and services that match what the market is looking for. Here are some products that could have put a little more effort into market research.