Quantitative

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Practical Research 2 | 6 October 2022
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Quantitative definition
research
characteristics

classifications

importance
Definition
from medieval Latin quantitativus, from the Latin
root word quantitas (quantity)
NUMERICAL - seeks to answer questions
beginning with "how many," "how much," "how
long," "to what extent," and the like
involves measurements and amounts,
percentages, and statistics
Characteristics
objective, not subjective - the quantitative
researcher excludes his own thoughts and
feelings about the subject or object, and there is
indeed no way to make them slip through the
research if done faithfully
usually happens in hard sciences (e.g. physics,
chemistry, medicine) and in financial fields
Classification

quantitative research

experimental research non-experimental research

Classification
experimental research

true pre-
experimental experimental

quasi-
single subject
experimental
Classification
quasi-
experimental

matched counter-
comparative balanced
group time series quasi-
Classification
non-experimental research

survey comparative

historical descriptive

observational correlational
Importance
enables an as objective as possible an
understanding of people, things, places, behavior
(whether individual or collective), etc. by
producing and/or referring to objective data
gathered through objective means
specially important for the hard sciences and the
financial market
Qualitative vs. quantitative
(Baraceros, 2016)

qualitative quantitative
mental survey results from social exists in the physical
of reality interaction world

cause-effect explained by revealed by automatic

descriptions of
relationships people's objective
circumstances or
desires conditions
Qualitative vs. quantitative
(Baraceros, 2016)

qualitative quantitative
researcher's subjective; objective; least
involvement with
the object or
sometimes involvement by the
subject of study personally engaged researcher

expression of data, verbal language numerals, statistics

data analysis, and (words, visuals,
findings objects)
Qualitative vs. quantitative
(Baraceros, 2016)

qualitative quantitative
research plan takes place as the plans all research
research proceeds aspects before
gradually collecting data

behavior toward desires to preserve contol or

manipulation of
research aspects the natural setting of
and conditions research conditions
research features by the researcher
Qualitative vs. quantitative
(Baraceros, 2016)

qualitative quantitative
obtaining multiple methods scientific method
knowledge

makes social evaluates objectives

purpose and examines cause-
intentions
effect reationships
understandable
Qualitative vs. quantitative
(Baraceros, 2016)

qualitative quantitative
data analysis thematic codal ways, mathematically-
technique competence-based based methdos
style of personal, lacks impersonal, scientific,
expression formality or systematic

sampling more inclined to random sampling

technique purposive sampling most preferred