What is Research?
Research is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict and control or observed a phenomenon or describe about the problem or provide solution of a problem or new finding about the problem or reach a new result or conclusion.
What is qualitative research?
Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research.
What is Quantitative Research?
Quantitative research is the process of collecting and analyzing numerical data. It can be used to find patterns and averages, make predictions, test causal effect relationships, and generalize results to wider populations.
Quantitative research are commonly used in Science, Medicine, computer science and life science and etc.
What is the main difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Research?
| Qualitative Research | Quantitative Research |
| Sample Size Qualitative Research has small sample size | Quantitative Research has large sample size compare to qualitative Research |
| Data Type Qualitative Research data in text or thematic format descriptive | Quantitative Research data in number or numeric format |
| Types of Questions Open ended questions and in-depth query to know about fact | Close ended questions and just know about either yes or no or likert scale format |
| Analytics This research method focuses on describing individual experiences and beliefs. | Quantitative research method focuses on describing the characteristics of a population cause and effects |
| Hypotheses Induced Hypotheses from data | Begins with Hypotheses |
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M.Y. Ali (03 Dec 2020).Qualitative Research vs Quantitative Research. profileusuf.wordpress.com. https://profileusuf.wordpress.com/qualitative-research-vs-quantitative-research/
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