Chapter 5: Qualitative vs quantitative

Question 1

What is the difference between Explaining and Understanding?

Answer 1

Explaining is looking at things from a 3rd person perspective, understanding looks at things from the pov of the actor; Explaining aims to find generalizable laws whereas understanding doesn’t

Question 2

What are the similarities between qualitative and quantitative research?

Answer 2

Reducing data, answering research questions, transparency, variation

Question 3

What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative research?

Answer 3

Words vs Numbers; Inductive vs Deductive; POV of participant vs researcher; Researcher close vs distant; Theory building vs testing; Contextual understanding vs Generalisation; Rich, deep data vs Hard, reliable data;