Also basic is participant observation, the deliberate sharing, to the extent that conditions permit, in the life of a community. Informant interviews, focus groups, and participant observation are good ways to generate information about community beliefs, norms, values, power and influence structures, and problem solving processes. Such data can seldom be reported in numbers, so they are often not collected. Even worse, conclusions that are based on intuition and unchecked are sometimes used to replace these types of data. People providing information should confirm their conclusions from direct data-generation methods. Problems are carefully selected. Participants in the process are deliberately selected.