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Overview


Our approach to anthropology

How we understand culture

What is predictive anthropology?

How Lux Consumer Insights compares to others

Why the STEEP Model Falls Short

Data, calculations & algorithms

What data sources do you use?

How accurate are your predictions?

What is a vector database?

How do you handle digital noise/manipulation campaigns? ****

How does the algorithm ensure you’re not amplifying the loudest voice?

Why are consumer verbatims not provided?

Is there a way to identify the dominant social channels from my search?

Cultural maturity & population

Cultural maturity

What is the maturity curve?

Using the maturity model

What is volatility?

What is the Zone of Innovation?

How does Lux predict future states?

Why do the predictions anticipate different time frames?

Why doesn’t cultural maturity match my product’s maturity?

Why is a culture growing when sales are declining?

How should I enter a market that’s an established idea?

Why are different cultures growing at different rates?


Population

What is population?

How to use population in conjunction with maturity

How is the population size calculated?

Population not changing when adding search terms?


What is microculture/insight card maturity and population?

Does maturity and population change monthly?

Why did the maturity decrease between two time frames?

Consumer Insights: Virtual Anthropologist


Overview

Understanding the Consumer Insights Virtual Anthropologist

What is the Research Assistant?

Exporting results

Getting started

How to access Lux’s virtual anthropologist?

How to ask the virtual anthropologist a question.

Reading an insight card

Diving deeper into an insight card

Understanding consumer profiles

How should I prioritize insight cards?

What are related projects?

What are the latest insights?

Why does it take around 3 minutes to process the results of a search?

Asking consumer-centric questions

Good questions to ask our virtual anthropologist

What can’t the virtual anthropologist do (yet)?

Why do I get different results from similar questions?

Why does the same question give different results?

How do I ask questions about specific demographic groups?

Example question formats

Research assistant

How do I open the research assistant?

Assistant: Tensions, Tempo, Patterns

How are the virtual anthropologist and research assistant built?

What kinds of tasks can I perform with Assistant?

Custom ethnographic reports (US/UK)


Introduction

What is a PhD Concierge?

What kind of questions can I ask when commissioning a custom report?

What happens after I brief in a custom report?

Do Lux for Predictive Anthropology reports offer business recommendations?

Highlights & Comments

Socio-demographics

Reading the demographics

What happens when I filter searches by demographic groups?

What is education?

What does income mean?

Does family type capture marital status?

How is social class calculated?

Is your analysis representative of the overall population?

Why don’t I see data on consumers under 18 or over 74 years old?

Ethnographic factors

What are ethnographic factors?

What is a motivation?

What is a value?

What is a fear?

What is an attitude?

How do you calculate ethnographic factors?

How do I interpret the strength indicators next to ethnographic factors?

Custom Calculations

How do you size drivers in custom Trends reports?

Jobs reports

What is a Jobs-to-be-Done report?

Data Sources for Jobs-to-be-Done

How do you determine jobs?

What is share of voice?

How should I think about the ranking and share of voice of Jobs?

How do you link jobs to microcultures from custom Trends reports?

Signals reports

What are signals?

How does Signals work?

Global ethnographic reports (All other markets)


Socio-demographics and maturity

Global Socio-demographics

How is Chinese Market Maturity calculated?

What does class mean in China?

What do the family types mean in China?

What does class mean in Mexico?

Lux-Motivbase Trends (Legacy Platform)

Lux-Motivbase Trends (Legacy Platform)