Introduction to quantitative research
1.2. Foundations of quantitative research methods 1.2.1. Realism, subjectivism and the ‘paradigm wars’ Now we have defined quantitative research, it is a good idea to compare it with qualitative research, to which it is usually put in opposition. While quantitative research is based on numerical data analysed statistically, qual-
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