Quantitative and qualitative methods

Question 1

Data related to how people think and feel is only qualitative… Is this correct

Answer 1

It is both quantitative and qualitative

Question 2

The qualitative approach is idiographic . What does this mean?

Answer 2

Idiographic means drawing on unique experience

Question 3

A focus group is….

Answer 3

A method for finding out what people think and feel about a specific topic

Question 4

What does ethnographic refer to

Answer 4

Studying groups of people in their own cultural setting

Question 5

Purposive sampling is

Answer 5

Non-random, a method of selecting participants and is used when the limited number of people are suitable

Question 6

Thematic analysis is a Bottom-up and top-down approach… Is this correct

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Thematic analysis is an iterative process - what does this mean

Answer 7

You have to go repeatedly through the data

Question 8

The quantitative approach is nomothetic – what does that mean

Answer 8

Making broad ranging laws about a likely behaviour

Question 9

Does the qualitative approach ever adopt a nomothetic approach

Answer 9

Yes researchers often do make generalisations