Reference no: EM131322631
Assignment: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Questions
According to Creswell (2009), quantitative research is a "means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables that can be measured and analyzed using statistical procedures." Qualitative research, Creswell posits, is a "means for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to social or human problems."
Consider the phenomenon of pain. Ethics committees and institutional review boards do not allow researchers to inflict equal doses of pain on subjects to examine their physiological response. In quantitative research, pain can be measured physiologically by blood pressure, changes in blood chemistry, muscle contractions, and pain scales (which are still subjective, but at least quantifiable). Researchers using a qualitative perspective may ask participants about their experience of being in physical pain, whether being in pain has changed them in any way, or what they have learned from experiencing physical pain.
For this Assignment, consider differences in how you might frame a research question in order to explore it using quantitative or qualitative research methods.
Submit a 2-page paper that highlights one of the research questions you shared in your Discussion post.
Question 1: Which characteristics can women use to determine a potential undetected rapist?
Question 2: What immediate needs do rape victims conflicted with the incidence of undetected rape term as the most significant?
Design a quantitative research question related to this problem and a qualitative research question related to the same problem.
Please use the resources to support your answer.
References - Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
|
The correlation between smoking and marijuana uses
: Because the correlation between smoking and marijuana use was .45, the researcher concluded that curette smoking leads to marijuana use. Do you agree with the researcher's conclusion? Explain your answer.
|
|
What is the project average accounting return
: You’re trying to determine whether to expand your business by building a new manufacturing plant. The plant has an installation cost of $13 million, which will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its four-year life. If the plant has projected n..
|
|
Dividend is assumed to grow at the same rate
: Keenan’s Inc.’s dividend is assumed to grow at the same rate of 4% forever. The dividend is currently $2 per share, and the investor’s required return is 9%. What is the value of Keenan’s Inc.’s common stock?
|
|
What is the discounted payback period
: An investment project costs $10,000 and has annual cash flows of $2,840 for six years. What is the discounted payback period if the discount rate is zero percent? What is the discounted payback period if the discount rate is 5 percent?
|
|
Determine a potential undetected rapist
: Which characteristics can women use to determine a potential undetected rapist? What immediate needs do rape victims conflicted with the incidence of undetected rape term as the most significant
|
|
About the paying annual dividends
: NU announced today that it will begin paying annual dividends. The first dividend will be paid next year in the amount of $.25 a share. The following dividends will be $.40, $.60, and $.75 a share annually for the following three years, respectively.
|
|
What is a design inequality
: How is the usual design inequality modified to account for statistical variability?
|
|
Authoritative role in the health care profession
: The theory of medical dominance suggests that doctors have a key authoritative role in the health care profession. Considering that this is a way of thinking that has been in existence since the early part of the twentieth century, do you believe ..
|
|
Prevalence rates of particular psychiatric disorder
: The most convenient data for analysis of prevalence rates of a particular psychiatric disorder are obtained: According to the course text, an indicator of the brain's complexity is
|