Ai Literacy

Data Analysis

The Car Wash Problem: Why Context Matters in AI-Assisted Qualitative Analysis

Susanne Friese, May 14 2026

At a recent presentation at the University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science, I started with a simple exercise.

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Data Analysis

The Prompt That Couldn’t Work: An AI Literacy Breakdown for Qualitative Researchers

Susanne Friese, November 23 2025

In mid-2023, there were only a handful of academic articles on using generative AI in qualitative research. Early pieces included work by Anis and French (2023), Gao et al. (2023), and Christou (2023). Now there are hundreds of papers, both preprints and peer-reviewed publications. The rapid growth, however, has not been matched by an equivalent...

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