Compare Qualitative And Quantitative Research

Quantitative and qualitative methods are use to identify a research problem. In statistics, a quantitative research is frequently use because it provide us with data. A quantitative research can give us a detailed explanation of variables’ relationship while qualitative research cannot give us detailed in-depth information about the problem. Quantitative and qualitative methods have their own purpose for the research. The purpose for the quantitative research is to explain a phenomenon through the collection of numerical data while the purpose for the qualitative research is to gain an explanation of a phenomenon through the collection of narrative data (O'Sullivan et al., p.38). Quantitative and qualitative methods use samples as a tool to get results for their research problem. A qualitative method utilizes a smaller sample size while a quantitative research uses a larger sample size to generalize results to a population.

The surveys we were handling to litigants consist of one question that they had to answer. The question in the survey asks litigants how they found out about self-help centers and they had four answers that they can choose. These answers were the following: through the court system, online, from a friend or relative, and other. The site-supervisor at the self-help center was constantly telling us [volunteers] to turn in these surveys by the end of our shift. Each day at the center, the amount that the surveys were turn in were not correlated to the amount of litigants that volunteers serve and this was one of the reason why the site-supervisor was constantly telling volunteers to turn in these surveys. The center that I was volunteering had difficulty measuring how the litigants found out about the self-help center, but it improved over time when the site-supervisor decided to change her