Benjamin Keep, PhD, JD | Qualitative vs Quantitative Research Approaches @benjaminkeep | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods are two huge research families. At the heart of the distinction, though, is the kind of data you're working with. Quantitative data means stuff you can count or quantify. Qualitative data means stuff you can't.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Quantitative data
01:02 Qualitative data
01:56 Research methods
02:38 Examples of quantitative research approaches
03:05 Examples of qualitative research approaches
03:49 Limitations of different research approaches
04:57 Using qualitative and quantitative research together
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References:
The essay example I used was Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”. Just got a kick out of the idea of giving Orwell a C, considering it’s one of the classics. : ) Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English language.
I include a graph from the following paper in my example of quantitative research. Doesn’t really have anything to do with what I’m talking about - just happened to have it open at the time. Patel, R., Liu, R., & Koedinger, K. R. (2016). When to Block versus Interleave Practice? Evidence Against Teaching Fraction Addition before Fraction Multiplication. In CogSci.
Qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods are two huge research families. At the heart of the distinction, though, is the kind of data you're working with. Quantitative data means stuff you can count or quantify. Qualitative data means stuff you can't.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Quantitative data
01:02 Qualitative data
01:56 Research methods
02:38 Examples of quantitative research approaches
03:05 Examples of qualitative research approaches
03:49 Limitations of different research approaches
04:57 Using qualitative and quantitative research together
Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: benjaminkeep.com
References:
The essay example I used was Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”. Just got a kick out of the idea of giving Orwell a C, considering it’s one of the classics. : ) Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English language.
I include a graph from the following paper in my example of quantitative research. Doesn’t really have anything to do with what I’m talking about - just happened to have it open at the time. Patel, R., Liu, R., & Koedinger, K. R. (2016). When to Block versus Interleave Practice? Evidence Against Teaching Fraction Addition before Fraction Multiplication. In CogSci.
