This mind map of the epistemological foundations of quantitative research is used to improve quantitative results or to increase background knowledge that would otherwise be difficult to gather using quantitative designs (Muntaner & Gómez, 2003). The benefits of using qualitative data may be best understood by looking at the underlying philosophical views, particularly from an epistemological standpoint, because the nature of knowledge is characterized and classified by purpose and design, as shown in the mind map of the epistemological foundations of quantitative research. A critical approach seeks to empower and identify emancipatory information, whereas a postmodern/poststructural approach seeks to deconstruct previously held truths and rationales.
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The epistemological foundationsof quantitive research.
Quantitative research characterizes forbeing a systematic investigation of a topicrelated to a social phenomenon and aspecific research methodology gatheringquantifiable data and using statistical
Some of the most used quantitativemethods can be discrete and continuoussimulation, heuristic and meta-heuristicanalysis methods, as well as design ofexperiments (very abundant in the scientificliterature).
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy whoseobject of study is scientific Knowledge.
Episteme was the reflective knowledgeelaborated with rigor.
The underlying philosophies andworldviews of researchers, also calledepistemologies, are basically thefundamentals that mark the differencebetween quantitive and qualitativereserch.
Subjectivism
Is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the onlyunquestionable fact of our experience",[1] instead ofshared or communal, and that there is no external orobjective truth... Subjectivism gives primacy to subjectiveexperience as fundamental of all measure and law.
Positivism
Is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive")Knowledge is based on natural phenomena and theirproperties and telations.
Post-positivists consider that research can never becertain, and that researchers should approximate thatreality as best as they can. That is the best way how theycan represent that reality.
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The epistemological foundations
of quantitive research.
Quantitative research characterizes for
being a systematic investigation of a topic
related to a social phenomenon and a
specific research methodology gathering
quantifiable data and using statistical
Some of the most used quantitative
methods can be discrete and continuous
simulation, heuristic and meta-heuristic
analysis methods, as well as design of
experiments (very abundant in the scientific
literature).
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy whose
object of study is scientific Knowledge.
Episteme was the reflective knowledge
elaborated with rigor.
The underlying philosophies and
worldviews of researchers, also called
epistemologies, are basically the
fundamentals that mark the difference
between quantitive and qualitative
reserch.
Subjectivism
Positivism
Is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only
unquestionable fact of our experience",[1] instead of
shared or communal, and that there is no external or
objective truth... Subjectivism gives primacy to subjective
experience as fundamental of all measure and law.
Is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive")
Knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their
properties and telations.
Post-positivists consider that research can never be
certain, and that researchers should approximate that
reality as best as they can. That is the best way how they
can represent that reality.
The epistemological foundationsof quantitive research.
Quantitative research characterizes forbeing a systematic investigation of a topicrelated to a social phenomenon and aspecific research methodology gatheringquantifiable data and using statistical
Some of the most used quantitativemethods can be discrete and continuoussimulation, heuristic and meta-heuristicanalysis methods, as well as design ofexperiments (very abundant in the scientificliterature).
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy whoseobject of study is scientific Knowledge.
Episteme was the reflective knowledgeelaborated with rigor.
The underlying philosophies andworldviews of researchers, also calledepistemologies, are basically thefundamentals that mark the differencebetween quantitive and qualitativereserch.
Subjectivism
Is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the onlyunquestionable fact of our experience",[1] instead ofshared or communal, and that there is no external orobjective truth... Subjectivism gives primacy to subjectiveexperience as fundamental of all measure and law.
Positivism
Is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive")Knowledge is based on natural phenomena and theirproperties and telations.
Post-positivists consider that research can never becertain, and that researchers should approximate thatreality as best as they can. That is the best way how theycan represent that reality.
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