S.R. Brown: Q Methodology and Qualitative Research Some of the quantitative obstacles to the wider use of Q methodology have recently been rendered less daunting by virtue of software
packages which have converted to button presses what before were tedious calculations. One such package, QMethod (Atkinson, 1992), is
available as freeware from Kent State University's Listserver, and the way in which QMethod facilitates Q-methodological inquiries, as well as
the way in which such inquiries proceed, is perhaps best illustrated in terms of a concrete example such as the following.