Network analysis is a quantitative methodology, and as such, the findings can be displayed pictorially in order to demonstrate the relationships of links to one another.
Several methods of network analysis have been used to investigate the causal judgements made by participants. The initial method (e.g., Lunt, 1988) used a grid form of data collection with the proposed causes of the phenomenon down the side and along the top of the grid. Participants were then asked to put a 1 in the appropriate cell if they thought there was a link between the two causes and a 0