Question

If you are conducting a survey to find out. How medical health insurance can have negative effect on a patient when it comes to selecting the correct plan and cost.

Are you using qualitative or quantitative research and why?

400 words no plagiarism please

Answer 1

If i conduct a survey to find out how medical health insurance can have negative effect on a patient when it comes to selecting the correct plan and cost ,i would use the quantitative research because of the following reasons .

1.describe a research problem through trends & relationships

2. provide a major role for literature to suggest questions & justify research problem

3. create purpose statements, research questions, & hypotheses that are specific, narrow, measurable, & observable. Starts with generation of a hypothesis (tentative answer to a question generally based upon prior research)

4. collect numerical data from a large number of people using instruments

5. analyze data for trends, group comparisons, & relationships among variables

6. write research report using standard, fixed structures & an objective, unbiased approch

"Systematic investigation into a social phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques"

This type of research generates statistics

Usually starts with generation of a hypothesis (tentative answer to a question generally based upon prior research)

Common methods include:

Questionnaires/surveys, Structured interviews,

Experiments

Quantitative research: reaches more people;

contact with subjects is quicker than with qualitative research

In short ,due to its strengths such as :-

1-Through measuring and counting, precise estimates and observation can be made.

2-If done well, bias is minimized, which makes the research more objective.

3-The results can be analyzed statistically; this allows researchers to determine to what extent results or observations are due to chance.

4-Hypotheses can be tested.

5-The results can be generalized or applied to other, similar populations.