men vs women

After transcribing all the of the three interviews, I found myself lost - yes lost. It wasn't what I expected at all, for one of them at least. I had different expectations of what I would get from my respondents, but now that I have all of them done, I can see the foggy haze slowly form in front of my eyes. Maybe from staring at the screen too much, and getting really close to it, to make sure that I had typed down everything the respondents said.
Note to self (and everyone with a BlackBerry) don't use your phone to record the interview! Had I an appropriate device to record the interviews, I'm pretty sure the interview transcriptions would've been done the day after, or even that same night. Maybe not, but the process would've been that much easier. Main reason: every time I pause the interview my phone stops and says there is an error loading it - great! so every time I need to go back and make sure I heard the right thing...I have to start all over again (yes!!) So I pretty much had to listen to the interviews more than five times in order to get everything done. But enough of me complaining, life is about learning lessons and I definitely learned mine.
Unsatisfied rant aside, I feel as if I got the interviews mixed up, because some of the answers were not what I was expecting from the specific respondent at the time. However, I must give credit to my fellow XX (females) beings, the most successful interview was with a woman. The total interview lasted 15 minutes. Yes! 15!! 5 of which were spent, introducing my project and a little bit about my background and such, and the other remaining 10, was the actual recorded interview. Once I transcribed the interview, I saw the caliber of the answers that she gave me. They were straight to the point, answered everything mentioned in my questions and were quality answers too, for that matter. So therefore my conclusion to this part of the never ending process, that is MMRW, is that women won in this round - let's see how well men do with my observations and surveys (not to separate us) :]