The Pros And Cons Of Quantitative Methods

1. Quantitative methods are mostly used through numerical data, which means it is countable and it comes from a data collection. So I personally think,the best topics to be studied would be, students not finishing their studies or the increasing number of minor 's crimes. On the other hand, qualitative methods could be used to formulate new research questions when a quantitative method research seems difficult to generate new hypotheses and ideas. The qualitative methods present facts and figures through observations and interviews. The topics I would be studied for qualitative methods are people 's experience with food and body image and also one of the most important one why people decide to take loans in order to pay their education.

2. Experiments, are very important tools in researches. Usually, in experiments, two or more groups are studied, and one of the many advantages is that depending on the experiment, the researcher can see a cause and effect relationship and be sure of who his or her experiment is going. One disadvantage of experiments, is that the result of it, cannot be generalized for the entire population, but only for the group studied.

Researchers have to decide where to locate their observations, and once this is done, they need to decide who, where, and what to observe. Field studies is a study in which the researchers keep asking themselves questions about including different kinds of observations, or expand the kind of people and interaction they are focusing on. The data of field studies are very impegnative and need to be reviewed constantly, so to avoid wasting precious time in case of mistakes. The advantage of field studies is the total immersion in a total different culture or subculture for periods of time, and it offers interactions, individuals and contexts to