Quantitative research

When I embarked on my research project it was nearing the end of rowing season. I was training seven times a week in preparation for the Head of the River Competition. My interest in the health benefits of exercise led me to look at previous research and the current literature regarding the health outcomes of exercise. I knew in my own mind how I had personally benefitted from exercise however I intended to extend my knowledge about why I was feeling mentally stronger and more resilient. This…

about the world (Carey 2011). There are roughly six steps to the scientific methods, although a good deal of sociological research does not exactly go in that exact order. First, the sociologist uncovers questions that need answers (pg 73). These questions can range from larger societal issues, personal experiences, or topics in the sociological field; however, the best research is rooted in a topic that the sociologist is personally passionate about. …

Introduction. Quantitative research is research in which numbers are used to represent reality, and it is directed with the purpose of discovering relationships as well as cause and effect (Fain, 2015). For the purpose of this critique the reader will be analyzing the effectiveness of the Quantitative Article Caregiving for Patients with Heart Failure: Impact on Patients’ Families. To complete this critique, the reader is using methods outlined in the text Reading, Understanding, and Applying…

Critical Appraisal of a Research Article This essay contains my critical appraisal of a quantitative research paper by Kennedy, Curtis and Waters, (2014). I will critique the research paper using an appraisal guide adapted from Ingham-Broomfield (2008) and Solutions for Public Health (2010). I will work through the article in a systematic way, beginning with the title and going right through to the conclusion. Critiquing an article in this way helps enable one to weigh up the strengths and…

to use a qualitative method rather than a quantitative one. In many universities and schools qualitative research is the model of choice (Sanders). This essay will discuss the factors which influence researchers to choose qualitative over quantitative methods with reference to existing research studies. Qualitative research aims to understand occurrences in context-specific settings and has a naturalistic approach. On the other hand, quantitative research is experimentally based and seeks to…

classroom which in turn help them to gain new skills. To be able to gather the necessary data, the quantitative research method was applied. This method was chosen because this study involves a large number of subjects and numerical data that is analyzed by using mathematical methods. It concentrates on the numbers and must be impartial and be statistically valid. This chapter will look at the setting, research method and design, the participants, procedures, instrumentation, and the…

In a recent study, scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) were able to show that humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli thus, clarifying earlier misconceptions which claimed that humans could only approximately discriminate 10, 000 . To conduct this experiment, researchers used 128 odorous molecules to create scented mixtures that contained 10, 20 or 30 different components and then they asked 26 participants, out of whom 17…

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Medscape Multispecialty. (2015). Nursing's Role and Staffing in Accountable Care. Nurs Econ. , 31(5):250-253). Retrieved from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/815066 This article is a qualitative research article. This is due to its detailed procedural of research where the evidence for the research is carried out step by step to build a strong analogy base for the research findings. The article also uses evidence of lived experience on the early…

In the criminal justice system the research plays a very big part. The role of all the research is to basically to determine what the major problem is at hand. “Quantitative research methods are typically concerned with measuring criminological or criminal justice reality”(Criminology and Criminal Justice Research). There are many different research methods at hand for researchers to use. The first method being experimental and quasi-experimental research which helps to identify the cause and…

through intermediaries, the personal character of the gift does not necessarily vanish. A suitable example is of charity in contemporary times where the giver and the recipient do not know each other such as campaigns for collecting funds for AIDS research, cancer patients, victims of natural disasters like earthquake and so…