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Q-methodology

noun

a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similarCompare R-methodology

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