Quantitative Research: A Strength Of Quantitative Research

This contextual project work is consisting of 10 concepts from the module entitled ‘’ Research and Nursing Research’’ block 3. Each one of the concepts will be described in terms of its meaning, will be critically analyzed for its real life application and will be followed by some reference of the current research evidence. Real life application will explore a possible relationship of the concept with personal, social or professional life.

This essay’s aims are to evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to friendship. I will discuss how different approaches studying friendship have been developed and how the findings influenced our understanding of friendships. Also, my focus will be on the benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches and the limits of using qualitative methods for understanding friendship. In this paper, I will focus on two major

Without research being carried out medical professionals/and laboratory scientists would not be able to provide us with improved medications that can improve our health. Quantitative research is the collection of data. Individuals carrying

Psychologists have long been interested in conformity as a powerful influence on our behaviour, making us behave in ways that can often conflict with our attitudes and moral and ethical principles.

A qualitative study focuses on natural settings that are associated in everyday life. Typically, qualitative researchers often do their study on smaller sample sizes as they are not looking to establish a statistical generalization in their findings. Qualitative research does not involve statistical measures or quantity of any kind, instead it is the study that involves lived human experiences. A lived human experience can be interpreted as gaining personal knowledge in everyday life by living through something or being involved in life events. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and critique the study if R.C. Stenhouse and his attempt to understand patient experiences in a acute psychiatric ward

The entire research journey is based on few important steps which can also be recognized as research process involving certain measures; to be carried out effectively. This process includes (Library, 2015);

Quantitative research is a form of research where people are asked something with a simple answer that can be quantified afterwards to represent a larger group. This type of research has simpler answers (yes or no) than qualitative which has more complicated answer (such as a paragraph of text) that can not be quantified but tells a lot more information with 1 answer. Quantitative research is quicker and easier to gather result. Quantitative research can be used for things such as seeing how much of the population in the UK like corn flakes. They would do this by making a survey with a simple answers for the person being surveyed to choose from, the people doing the survey would be people chosen at random

One aspect of public health research method that I learned is that measurement is central to quantitative research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative relationships. I also learned that the goals and techniques associated with probability samples differ from those of nonprobability samples. If we want to get results that are valid for the whole study population, we should know how to draw a sample in such a way that it is representative of that population. But it is not necessarily that nonprobability samples are not representative of the population. It means that nonprobability samples cannot depend upon the rationale of probability

MotherJones is an online magazine website that features news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights and culture. Motherjones often post articles that are argumentative and are relevant to the general reader. I recently read an article titled “Black Deaths Matter”. I believe that this article should be published on MotherJones because it is a topic that is relevant to what’s going on in the world today. This article is about the lack of good policing in low income neighborhoods and how black families struggle for justice when a family member is murdered. This article is good in the culture category for MotherJones because it is a big issue in African American communities. Police Brutality and Black on Black crime have been tracing

Generally, science such as medicine is highly supported by quantitative research and methodology.  According to Tinkle & Beaton, “it has been argued that there is an over-valuation of the empirical/quantitative view because it is seen as “true science” (as cited in McEwen & Wills, 2014, p. 17).  We see this with evidence based practice guidelines in several areas of nursing.  For example, at one time, we would treat fever in pediatric patients with aspirin.  We since have learned that this puts the child as risk for Reye’s syndrome.  When completing research on abstract subjects such as compassion fatigue, utilizing repeatable tools or instruments allows for qualitative information to be gathered and collated  in a quantitative manner to support

Phonological awareness (PA) is generically defined as the conscious ability to break words into individual sounds and manipulate these sounds. PA abilities have been shown to affect early literacy skills in normal hearing children and deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children alike. Even though advanced cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) technology is making tremendous strides for the DHH community, these hearing devices still cannot completely restore normal hearing or fully represent all aspects of normal speech sounds. Therefore, children within this population are potentially at a higher risk for speech disorders, delays, and language difficulties. If research studies can lead to a better understanding of how PA develops in young children with CIs or HAs, then educators and Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) will be able to identify which children are at a higher risk for literacy delays later in life; consequently, preventing these delays by facilitating early development of PA skills. This

Casual consensual sexual encounters, known as “hooking up,” among college students has been associated with range of positive and negative consequences, as noted in Lucy E. Napper, Kevin Montes, Shannon R. Kenney, and Joseph W. LaBrie research article, Assessing the Personal Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students: Gender Differences and Mental Health. The study discusses “the relationships among hooking up behaviors, psychological distress, and a broad range of negative effects of hooking up in both male and female college students” (Napper et al, 2015 pg.1). Napper et al’s (2015) study used a sample of college students

In my thesis I utilized the quantitative content analysis method. There are many definitions of this research method from different authors. Most of the definitions include similar principles. The research should be systematical, objective, quantitative and replicable. Daniel Riff introduced in his book the major definition and compiled their aspects into his own. He says:

For our research, we performed a survey that included eight questions that pertained to gender, age, relationship status, sexual activity, attributes for a potential partner, and the desire to eventually get married. We distributed our survey amongst college students that attend Bakersfield Community College (BCC) located in Bakersfield, Ca. In the (JOAQUIN) class, there were seven males and sixteen females. Therefore, our sample was twenty-three college students. This concluded that our sample was 30% male and 70% female.

The term Research Methodology refers to a set of procedures, methods & techniques that are put together by the researchers to obtain a solution to the problems they confront during the collection of data. The researchers look for the most crucial data which is inevitable for the research. Generally there are three kinds of approaches or research methods namely Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed. These methods are used to gather data and resolve issues that emerge during the process of data gathering. The researcher can bring forward his findings either in the form of quantitative or qualitative or mixed research methodologies only when the data is collected based on the preliminary data gathering process and the secondary data gathering process.