An Overview of Methodological Strategy

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This paper explains quantitative and qualitative research methods. It also discusses their uses and in what type of research they are most valuable. The paper also looks at some of the shortcomings associated with each type of methodology and what might motivate a researcher to favor one method over another.

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"To count or not to count. That is the question. And a question of as great importance to many social scientists and humanists as was Hamlet's question to himself on the nature of suicide and the value of life. One of the most important choices that a researcher makes in designing a research project is to make a choice between qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Although the two can certainly be used together, most research projects rely far more heavily on one than on the other either because of the nature of the data themselves or because of personal preferences by the researcher. That is certainly true of this research, which could only effectively have been carried out through the use of a statistical methodology."

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