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Whereas quantitative research emphasizes the study of factors that can be explicitly measured, qualitative data is more descriptive. This has a couple of key implications. The first is that qualitative data is inherently more subjective. It is directly subject to interpretation from the researcher. Quantitative data can be interpreted by the researcher, but ultimately the data is presented in raw form and can therefore be interpreted by another researcher as well. The other implication is that whereas qualitative data is interpreted at the observation level, quantitative must be analyzed at the root level. The way in which is survey is designed will reveal the biases of the researcher, so that is the level that must be given the most scrutiny. Beyond this, quantitative research often reflects the use of proxies, so there is some distance between the numbers generated and the actual phenomenon being studies. This especially true of business, where for example the number of takeovers is used as a quantitative proxy for the qualitative element of corporate governance. The researcher must be aware of the imperfections of the proxy; with qualitative data it is more the interpretation that must be subject to scrutiny than the researcher design itself.
5. Data from qualitative research is substantially different from data from quantitative research....
Superficially, qualitative research consists of descriptors that are non-numeric. Quantitative research is based strictly around numeric measures. The result of this is that the two must be interpreted entirely differently. The data is also acquired in a different manner as well. Qualitative measures are often gathered through direct observation, while quantitative results can often be derived through primary sources other than observation (annual reports in business, for example). The method of gathering the data may not differ, but the degree to which the data is objective and the degree of subjective interpretation of the data will differ between qualitative and quantitative data.
6. This qualitative research would be relatively straightforward. The first step would be to determine the models and colors that needed to be tested. The second step would be to determine the necessary sample size. For a qualitative study, the qualitative measures would need to be determined -- for example, "like," "do not like," etc. These measures could also be adapted to quantitative measures. Once the measures are set, the designs and colors should also include domestic examples as well, so that the company can understand consumer response to the new designs and colors relative to the models and colors already available in the domestic U.S.…
Primary Source Critique Tacitus: "Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola" Unlike our own period of time, the ancient Romans experienced very little angst about the prospect of colonizing a geographically and ethnically distinct people for the enrichment of their own country. As is evident in Tacitus' "Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola," the British resistance to Roman colonization is viewed as evidence of the British people's barbarity, not praiseworthy British fortitude against foreign domination.
10 was written so that people could see the good in the Constitution and why it was so very important that it be ratified and accepted by all of the states in the U.S. Federalist Paper No. 10 (Madison, 1787) is an excellent primary source because it has been verified by scholars and historians throughout the ages, because it can be safely attributed to Madison as the author, and because
For example, more use of interactive technologies such as, video, podcasts and blogs could have increased the interaction and depth of the site and the online exhibition. However there are some informative and laudable sections to this site. One of these is the News section. This area shows how up-to-date the site is terms of announcements about the museum. This section also goes a long way to authenticating the site.
State resources were used for useful public works like the importation and cultivation of medical herbs, the building of rest houses, the digging of wells at regular intervals along main roads and the planting of fruit and shade trees. To ensue that these reforms and projects were carried out, Asoka made himself more accessible to his subjects by going on frequent inspection tours and he expected his district officers
..]we are not on that account, by any means guilty" (p. 71). The British response to this, however, was extreme -- eventually in the expulsion and mass migration of the Acadians, but more immediately in the reaction of the council to the Acadians' memorials. They determined that the Acadians who had presented the memorials were "arrogant and insidious[...]and were severely reprimanded for their Audacity in Subscribing and Presenting so impertinent
primary source written by slave have picked Lewis Clarke and his book Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clark. In my opinion, excerpts from this book give a clear account about the condition of a slave in the South in the first half of the 19th and a revelatory story of a fugitive slave and his experience as he ran for freedom. Lewis Clarke was born in 1812, in Madison