An opening vignette, for example, in which an Orthodox Jew visits the brothel after sitting shiva for his wife is humorously touching, but when two hookers reminisce about their mothers' borscht and life in the Old Country, they sound more like Valley girls waxing nostalgic about the mall.
In the 'altruistic' vignette, for example, the respondent may interpret the physician's interaction with a teenage cancer patient's and her mother's rejection of chemotherapy treatment for alternative non-medical therapies as an ethical or moral dilemma.
Even the 20 most frequently recurring characteristics across all 58 vignettes did not appear in every vignette (for example, Karlsson and colleagues used a vignette with none of the 20 characteristics [ 43]), while as many as nine of these characteristics appeared in some vignettes (i.e., Holroyd et al.'s vignette contained nine of the 20 characteristics among all described symptoms [ 41]).
Ms. Chao was heard to much better effect in Gyorgy Kurtag's "Hommage ?. Sch.," a 1990 meditation on Schumann's imaginative collections of vignettes ("Kinderszenen" for example), in which she was joined by Carol McGonnell, the clarinetist, and Stephanie Griffin, the violist.
In one of the vignettes for OxiClean, for example, stocky college football players don prom dresses and roll in a field of blueberry pies.
Prior participation in the PLAs may also have affected responses to the vignette more generally, for example coloured by views of other PLA participants regarding PMTCT service use, though interviewees would only have recognised small elements of their role-play in the vignette.
For example, vignettes do not have a set length.
However, neither paper evaluated the specific challenges nor advantages of applying vignettes in their setting, for example the extent to which respondents understood the directions they were given, or how well fieldworkers facilitated discussions or interviews containing vignettes.
For example, such vignettes enabled the estimation of cross-country differentials in work disability reporting [ 23].
Further, those studies which have investigated discriminatory behaviours have usually assessed participants in an imaginary context [ 37], for example using vignettes, which may be different from real life situations.
