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For example, early focus groups found that contrary to popular opinion at the time, wives often had more influence than their husbands when choosing which car to buy, so Chrysler shifted gears by marketing cars directly to women.
And Dr. Dichter himself conducted focus groups for Mattel to learn what girls wanted in a doll.
So how does a focus group work?
This is often done through professional recruiters who manage lists of people who've agreed to participate in focus groups for payment or other rewards.
A focus group may have two or more moderators perhaps taking opposite sides on a question, or a researcher might be hidden in the focus group unknown to other participants to see how their answers can be influenced.
But although they can provide valuable insight, focus groups do have their limitations, and one of the main ones is that the simple act of observing something can change it.
The answers participants give are likely to be affected by the presence of the researchers, social pressure from the rest of the group, or simply knowing that they're taking part in a focus group.
The findings that researchers do reach from focus groups are often tested through experiments and data gathering.
But focus groups have remained largely the same for decades.
When we talk about criminal justice reform, we often focus on a few things, and that's what I want to talk to you about today.
When we talk about criminal justice reform, we, as a society, focus on three things.
There are two sets of theories, which both say that primarily, choking under pressure boils down to focus.
A study on competitive golfers compared their performance when instructed to simply focus on putting as accurately as possible, versus when they were primed to be acutely aware of the mechanics of their putting stroke.
And thirdly, researchers have shown that having an external focus on the ultimate goal works better than an internal focus, where someone is tuned into the mechanics of what they’re doing.
So, perhaps we can modify that age-old saying: practice, under pressure, with focus, and with that glorious end goal in sight, makes perfect.
And that is why their leaders think twice, step back from the brink, and decide to focus on economic ties over territorial tensions.
See, you might be thinking to yourself, how can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues?
Ideas are complex things; you need to slash back your content so that you can focus on the single idea you're most passionate about, and give yourself a chance to explain that one thing properly.
And basically what they allow is anyone out there can develop their own peer-review process, so that they can focus on the content in the repository that they think is really important.
And what I need, in effect, is a focus.
And when I have the question, it is a focus.
And it may also be explained that now you have a focus.
Among the many gifts my mother gave me was the ability to focus on the positive, rather than the negative.
We conducted about a dozen focus groups with a broad cross-section of black men, and we learned that for them, being healthy was as much about being perceived as healthy as it was about feeling healthy, and that feeling good went hand in hand with looking good.
Except this time, it holds the messages so that Nancy can still focus, but John can get the thought off of his mind.
And it reminds me that sometimes, you have to just focus on designing for a real need at low friction.
I was so determined to survive that I used my scarf to tie tourniquets around the tops of my legs, and I just shut everything and everyone out, to focus, to listen to myself, to be guided by instinct alone.
But my priority and my focus was always my work.
From my point of view, the main focus should be on creating places that make their people feel they belong.
So we at the Hebrew University, together with our partners in Sweden, decided to focus on the development of an industrial-scale process to produce this nanocellulose.
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