7. Interviews - pros and cons

Advantages of interviews	Disadvantages of interviews
Excellent for personal contact and understanding with the user	Take up a lot of time for both individuals and the analyst
Can elicit hard-to-quantify information and knowledge	Must be well structured to be efficient - it is easy to waste time in an interview
Extra detail can be drawn out on the spot	Only practical for a limited number of people
Opinions can be aired and considered by people in the group	Less quantitative than a questionnaire
If anonymous, perhaps more honest answers will be provided	People have to be available
Questions can be planned ahead of time by the analyst	Not as anonymous as a questionnaire so people may be less willing to convey the truth.

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