Sunday, September 20, 2015

A500.6.3.RB - Qualitative Research_MullBrandon



Qualitative research can be described as a type of exploration research rather than a quantifiable research. The major reason for using any type of qualitative research is because the study goes deeper than number and needs to be explained more than a percent. In a qualitative research study, one can get a kind of voice to the results.



One of the many different elements to this style of research is the researcher. The researcher has to take in the data and put it into his or her own different style to analyze the results. The results are not always going to be the same researcher to researcher. It's all about how the person said or did something that gives a result and that can be looked at differently. Not having a direct result can sometimes be confusing about the results to a qualitative research. It gives results but it can also lead to new questions.



Reading the results is also one of the other interesting elements that makes qualitative different from quantitative research. In qualitative research the results can be similar outcomes while the quantitative have defined results that one did better than another. Quantitative research can give reader a view of the results insted of information. The reader takes away his or her own interpretation of the results.  For example, one reader might focus on the results that it was useful while another might be focused on if the context was applicable to the situation.



I can see a lot of different applications for qualitative research but it doesn't always give a final answer. It gives a feel for what the results may be but it's not a number than someone can quickly look at and understand that there is a depth to the results that can't be formed from a quantitative research.

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