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Students may be more familiar with a quantitative approach to research, but many research problems can be explored using either a quantitative approach, a qualitative approach, or both, in a mixed methods approach. The readings assigned for this week compare qualitative research and quantitative research in a number of ways. In your initial post, briefly compare qualitative and quantitative research. Be sure to address the difference between the interpretive and the positivist paradigms as well as ontological, epistemological, and methodological differences. Reflecting on your own predilections, do you relate to one paradigm more than the other? Which one and why? Post should be at least 300 words.
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Qualitative and Quantitative Research
In the field of research, qualitative and quantitative methodologies have possible
differences. There are differences in the methods, paradigms and the interpretive frameworks of
the research study. Other differences include the ontological, epistemological, and the
methodological perspectives, that is, the nature of reality (ontology), the truth or legitimate
knowledge (epistemology) and how a researcher finds out knowledge (methodology). Below is a
discussion of the differences based on these aspects.
The two most popular forms of research are qualitative and quantitative methodology.
The qualitative methodology is grounded in the interpretive paradigm while the quantitativ...
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