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Select a qualitative question you are interested in investigating. Discuss the basics of qualitative research: what are the characteristics, what is included, what are the 4 designs of the qualitative type research, which type would be appropriate for your qualitative research question and why?
Week 4 Discussion Forum Answer
Qualitative research is used to gather rich insights into the how’s and why’s that could not be answered when using quantitative methods. While quantitative research has numbers for data, qualitative research mostly has words that. In addition, while the quantitative method uses deduction and hypothesis testing, qualitative research is inductive and exploratory in its approach.