Lesson 2 importance of quant r
- 1. IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS LESSON 2
- 2. RATIONALE People do research to find solutions, even tentative ones to problems, in order to improve or enhance ways of doing things, to disprove or provide a new hypothesis or simply to find answers to questions or solutions in daily life. In natural and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic, empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical and mathematical techniques.
- 3. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS A. Quantitative Research and Anthropology > Many discoveries in this field like human behavior in the society, racial conflicts and human evolution have given enormous contributions to the improvement of human life.
- 4. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS B. Quantitative Research and Communication > Researchers are often interested in how an understanding of a particular communication phenomena might be generalized to a larger population. Example: What communicative behaviors are used to respond to co-workers displaying emotional stress?
- 5. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS C. Quantitative Research and Medicine > This tends to be predominantly observational research based on surveys or correlational studies. > Experimental research designs may enhance the quality of medical education.
- 6. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS D. Quantitative Research and Behavioral Science > the output of this research focuses on how human behavior relates with another people and also the individual differences that may affect human relations.
- 7. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS E. Quantitative Research in Educational and Psychology > Many educational principles in understanding human behavior are the offshoot of this research.
- 8. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS F. Quantitative Research and Social Science > The method employed in this type of quantitative social research are mostly typically the survey and the experiment. Example: the study of DSWD regarding 4P’s