Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each described study by its methodological tradition.
Groups: Quantitative · Qualitative
- Field notes coded for recurring themes in how nurses describe burnout
- Anxiety-scale scores from 500 participants, analyzed statistically
- Counting how many students pass or fail under two teaching methods
- Ten in-depth interviews exploring what living with chronic pain feels like
Hints
- The dividing line is the DATA: numbers versus text and narrative.
- Interviews and coded field notes yield non-numerical data; scores, counts, and reaction times yield numbers.
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Quantitative: Anxiety-scale scores from 500 participants, analyzed statistically, Counting how many students pass or fail under two teaching methods
Qualitative: Ten in-depth interviews exploring what living with chronic pain feels like, Field notes coded for recurring themes in how nurses describe burnout
Why
Quantitative work produces numerical data (scores, counts, reaction times) for statistical analysis; qualitative work produces non-numerical data (interviews, field notes) analyzed for themes. The data type, not the topic, decides the tradition.
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