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in pediatric medicine, maternity, and public

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health by conducting quantitative research
on Philippine communities that faced these
Defining Quantitative Research | Test ll. specific issues. This also enabled her to
answer questions and eventually generate
Quantitative research is a method that solutions and treatment by studying and
emphasizes objective measurements and researching the diseases she encountered.
numerical data. Creswell (1994) defined Thus, she provided innovative solutions to
quantitative research as a type of research public health issues that hounded Filipinos,
that is explaining phenomena by collecting especially those living in rural areas. Let us
numerical data that are analyzed using then examine the application of
mathematically based methods.' For quantitative research in other fields of
instance, in the 1980s, Dr. Fe del Mundo interest:
researched the number of Pseudomonas
infections among children admitted to
local hospitals and compared this number FIELDS OF INTERESTS | Test l.
to reports from the previous years to
determine the trends and pattern of Health and Medical Sciences
infections in the Philippines. To achieve this,
● Quantitative research methods,
Dr. del Mundo utilized a number of
introduced by pioneers like Dr. Pe
quantitative methods to collect her data
and analyze her findings. This then allowed del Mundo, have revolutionized
Dr. del Mundo to determine which age medical professionals worldwide.
groups among children were most Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
affected, the underlying factors that uses clinical research to improve
contributed to the increase in mortality patient care. Techniques like
rates, and, most importantly, identify the
randomized controlled trials
possible sources of the infection.
study drug effects and surgical

However, the medical sciences are just one techniques. Quantitative research
of the many fields that benefit from is essential in social sciences,
rigorous and systematic methods of sociology, psychology, political
collecting and analyzing data and science, education, economics,
information. Dr. Fe del Mundo wanted to
business, marketing, and natural
discover the source of a host of diseases
sciences.
that affected Filipinos during her time,
particularly mothers and children in rural
communities. She solved many problems
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Business and Marketing Social Sciences

● Quantitative research methods Social science research is a scientific
help businesses gather data from study of human society and social
consumers, partners, and the relationships, encompassing disciplines
market to make informed like anthropology, sociology, psychology,
decisions. This data is used to political science, history, linguistics,
improve processes, supply chain archeology, and economies. Quantitative
management, and inventory methods are employed in social sciences
management. Market research, to determine relationships between
such as taste tests and focus variables and explain cause
groups, gathers sentiment, relationships. This data-driven approach
trends, and customer tastes, informs policy makers in governments,
enabling companies to craft local authorities, and non-governmental
better marketing strategies and organizations, enhancing understanding
develop new products responsive of social phenomena and economic
to market preferences. patterns.

Human Resources Management Political Science and Politics

● Quantitative research is crucial in ● Surveys and opinion polls are
human resource management crucial for politicians and political
strategies for businesses, groups to gauge voter preferences,
government agencies, and particularly in the Philippines.
organizations. It helps track Survey firms like Social Weather
employee productivity, assess Station and Pulse Asia conduct
performance, design benefits, and these surveys to determine
improve recruitment. By studying support for candidates and voting
market trends and job market, HR patterns among different
departments can improve demographics. They also help
recruitment and make better explain voter trends and gauge
business decisions. Data collection public sentiment for public policy
and analytics are essential tools for or proposed laws.
this process.
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manipulating variables to support

or reject hypotheses.
Demography
● Demography is the study of a
population's characteristics,
including age, sex, education, 4 TYPES OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
income, fertility rate, mortality
rate, migration, and population 1. Descriptive Research
growth. 2. Correlational Research
3. Causal-Comparative or
Psychology Quasi-Experimental
● Psychometrics in psychology 4. Experimental Research
employs quantitative and
statistical methods to test,
measure, and analyze human DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS | Test
behavior and psychological IV.
processes, including tests like
Stanford-Binet 1Q, Maslach Descriptive research
Burnout Inventory, and ● Intended to know what, where,
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. when, and how.
● The Most Prevalent type of
Research
Economics ● It describes a phenomenon
● Economists and managers utilize ● Voting preferences is one of the
statistics and mathematical examples
methods to gauge market
behavior, forecast trends, and [Two types of descriptive gathering
create economic models. instruments]
● Survey
Natural Sciences ● Interview
● Experimental research, a
quantitative method used in fields [Characteristics of a Descriptive Research]
like medicine, biology, ecology, ● It collects a quantifiable
and geology, involves information or data
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● It is interested in determining the ● Determine the cause and effect

questions of what, where, when, relationship between two
and how. variables
● Non-experimental or No ● Uses two groups with the same
Interventions characteristics
● Cross Sectional
[Two Groups / Focus Groups]
Correlational Research ● Comparison Group
● Method that determine the ● Intervention / treatment group
relationship between two [Characteristics of a Causal-Comparative
variables using statistical or Quasi-Experimental Research]
analysis such as scatter plots or ● It aims to establish cause and
correlation coefficients. effects between two variables
● No random assignment or
[The two correlation coefficients] subjects in the group
● Positive - Synchronized / two
variables that tend to move in the [The Variables given]
same direction. ● Independent - effects
● Negative - indicates two variables ● Dependent - affected
that tend to move in opposite
directions. STEPS IN CONDUCTING QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH | Test ll.
[Characteristics of a Correlational
Research] 1. Identify research question and
● Non-Experimental research problem
● Variables are not implied 2. Review existing literature
causation 3. Develop a research plan
● Can show positive and negative 4. Gather data
relationship 5. Analyze and interpret the data
6. Write the research
Causal-Comparative or 7. Report and evaluate the
Quasi-Experimental data/research
● Aims to test the causal hypothesis
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● It should reflect the tone of the

writing.
● It should contain important
keywords that will make it easier to
QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH | be located during a keyword
Test lll. search.

Quantitative research deals with numbers

and statistics, while qualitative research Quantitative Research title examples:
deals with words and meanings.
Quantitative methods allow you to ● The relationship between
systematically measure variables and test unemployment and inflation rates
● The link between climate
hypotheses. Qualitative methods allow you
adaptation and mitigation funds
to explore concepts and experiences in
allocation
more detail. ● The relationship between job
satisfaction and employee
turnover
● The relationship between poor
households and members
becoming entrepreneurs
● The link between child welfare and
home ownership
● How effectively does AI fall
technology decrease patient falls
in hospitals?
● How does peer observation affect
adolescents’ decision-making?
● Does nutrition affect students’
academic performance?
● Nano-Optics and Benefits: Possible
Experiments.
CRAFTING RESEARCH TITLE | Test V. ● Comparing two machine learning
● It should predict the content of the models for detecting fake news.
research paper.
● It should be interesting to the
reader.