Quantitative and Qualitative research

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Research in social science is mainly of two types Qualitative and Quantitative

QUALITATIVE research involves an indepth understanding of a social phenomena

Qualitative research seeks to answer the how, what, when of a social phenomena

Qualitative research is time consuming

QUANTITATIVE research seeks to test an existing hypothesis

Quantitative research makes analysis of quantitative data collected over a short span of time

Quantitative research makes use of statistical tools for analysis of data The hypothesis is either accepted or rejected in the conclusion