Are ‘Qualitative’ and ‘Quantitative’ Useful Terms for Describing Research?
We examine the concepts of quantitative research and qualitative research and argue that this dichotomy has several dimensions which are often, erroneously, assumed to coincide. We analyse two of the important dimensions – statistical versus non-statistical, and hypothesis testing versus induction....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Methodological Innovations |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0010 |