Quantitative research is based on epistemic beliefs that can be traced back to David Hume. Hume and others who followed in his wake suggested that we can never directly observe cause and effect. Rather we perceive what is called "constant conjunction" or the regularities of relationships among ...
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1.量化研究/定量研究(quantitativeresearch)测量客观的事实关注于变项信度是关键价值中立不受情境影响多个个案、受试者统计分析研究者保持中立 2.质化研究/定性研究(qualitativeresearch)建构社会实相、文化意义关注于互动过程、事件关键在于货真价实价值无所不在，且分外明显受...
the people that will be using your products have fundamentally different perceptions, cultural norms, and cognitive models引自chapter1&2 The solution of this problem is to use supports from Anthropology and the other social sciencesthe demographic style of quantitative research 引自chapter1&2 The obs...
Related to this, you’ll need to indicate whether your study adopts aqualitative, quantitative or mixedapproach. As we’ve mentioned, there’s a strong link between this choice and your research philosophy, so make sure that your choices aretightly aligned. When you write this section up, rem...
Probability theory, discussed in Section 1.2, provides a framework for expressing such uncertainty in a precise and quantitative manner, and decision theory, discussed in Section 1.5, allows us to exploit this probabilistic representation in order to make predictions that are optimal according to approp...
aAs is illustrated in this chapter, videos allow for novel research questions to emerge from the data, while at the same time providing a means to test these questions in a quantitative manner. 正象在本章被说明,录影考虑到新颖的研究问题从数据涌现,当同时提供手段测试这些问题以定量方式时。[transla...
3.5.5 Quantitative research methods Quantitative research tends to be generalizable, it may be the most highly regarded when exploring features of the natural world. Below are some features of quantitative research: 1) General features of quantitative research Objective To precisely identify causal ...
6.6.1 Sample research introduction from quantitative research Figure 35 (on pages 89-90) presents Nana Okura Gagne’s introduction to her study of politeness making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods. This study, called “Reexamining the notion of negative face in the Japanese Socio ...
Qualitative analysis is the analysis of qualitative data such as text data from interview transcripts. Unlike quantitative analysis, which is statistics driven and largely independent of the researcher, qualitative analysis is heavily dependent on the researcher’s analytic and integrative skills and person...