2007-01-06 11:16:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
quantitative data: is data or info given in the form of numbers. Calculations and mathematics answers are quantitative data.
qualitative data: is data given in words or paragraphs. Essays and books are qualitative data. Qualitative data is aka descriptive data.
2007-01-06 11:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by navdeepkaur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quantitative data (as mentioned above) is data which can be described in numbers. Most behaviours can be transferred to numerical data. For example, number of correct items recalled by an eyewitness in an eyewitness study; or the measurement of an attitude from a questionnaire. Quantitative data can be generated using experiments and questionnaires. You would use statistical tests to analyse quantitative data (i.e. ANOVA, t-tests etc).
Qualitative data is data which cannot be transferred to numbers, i.e. the meaning of dialogue (newspaper articles, diaries), interviews, focus group (where lots of people get together to talk about a subject). Qualitative data is suggested to be a deeper process of analysis (more human) than quantitative. Techniques used to analyse qualitative data are not statistical i.e. grounded theory, phenomonological, discourse analysis. Qualitative data receives criticism because two people could come up with two completely different end results, so its not easily replicated (as quantitative aims to be).
2007-01-06 14:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋