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Title: Compare the key differences that set qualitative data analysis apart from quantitative data ... Post by: umud on Nov 1, 2017 Compare the key differences that set qualitative data analysis apart from quantitative data analysis. What four features differentiate these two approaches? Identify and briefly describe each one.
Title: Re: Compare the key differences that set qualitative data analysis apart from quantitative data ... Post by: Nürni on Nov 1, 2017 ● Types and numbers of analysis techniques: Quantitative researchers choose from a specialized, standardized set of data analysis techniques, whereas qualitative data analysis is less standardized.
● Starting points for data analysis: Quantitative researchers do not begin data analysis until they have collected all of the data and condensed them into numbers, whereas qualitative researchers begin analysis early in a research project while they are still collecting data. ● Relationship between data and social theory: Quantitative researchers manipulate numbers that represent empirical facts to test theoretical hypotheses, whereas qualitative researchers create new concepts and theory by blending together empirical evidence and abstract concepts. ● Degrees of abstraction/distance from the details of social life: Quantitative researchers assume that social life can be represented by using numbers, whereas in qualitative analysis, the data are in the form of words. |