IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE

RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS

 People do research to find solutions, even tentative

ones, to problems, in order to improve or enhance
ways of doing things, to disprove or provide a new
hypothesis, or simply to find answers to questions or
solutions to problems in daily life. Widely, quantitative
research is often used because of its emphasis on
proof rather than discovery.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & ACCOUNTING,
BUSINESS and MANAGEMENT (ABM)

 Researches can help design a new product or

service, figuring out what is needed and ensure the
development of product is highly targeted towards
demand. Businessmen can also utilize research results
to guarantee sufficient distribution of their products
and decide where they need to increase their
product distribution.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and
ANTHROPOLOGY
 Anthropology is a research method of combining
qualitative and quantitative research data. It is
concerned with exploring connections simultaneously,
amidst cultural differences, alternatives and identity.
 Quantitative research is use in Anthropology in many
aspects. Like, true experiments may use in studying
people provided that you follow certain steps (Bernard,
2004). This is to look into the Effects of an intervention in
ethnic behavior of a group.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and
COMMUNICATION

 Researchers are often interested in how an

understanding of a particular communication
phenomenon might generalize to a larger population.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and SPORTS
MEDICINE

 Quantitative
research is used to analyze how sports
may be used as an alternative way of medicating an
illness.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and
MEDICAL EDUCATION

 Quantitative research in medical education tends to

be predominantly observational research based on
surveys or correlational studies. The designs test
interventions like curriculum, teaching-learning
process, or assessment with an experimental group.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
 Relationship Questions in today’s quantitative trend tend
to explore how one behavior exhibited by people is
related to other types of behavior.
 Questions of difference explore how patterns of behavior
or perceptions might differ from one group or type of a
person to another
 When quantitative researchers explore questions of
differences or questions of relationships, they do so in an
attempt to uncover certain patterns of behavior.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN
EDUCATION
 Quasi Experiments are most often used in evaluating
social problems. Suppose a researcher has invented a
technique for improving reading comprehension
among third graders. She/he selects two third grade
classes in a school district. One of them gets the
intervention and the other doesn’t. Students are
measured before and after the intervention to see
whether their reading scores improve.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and
PSYCHOLOGY
 Mertens (2005) says that the dominant paradigms that
guided early psychological research were positivism
and its successor, post positivism. Positivism is based on
rationalistic, empiricist philosophy that originated with
Aristotle, Francis Bacon, John Locke, August Comte,
and Immanuel Kant.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING, and MATHEMATICS

 Medical practitioners, for example, conduct researches to

obtain significant information about diseases trends and
risk factors, results of various health interventions, patterns
of care and health care cost and use. The different
approaches to research provide complementary insights.
 As for engineers, architects, and other builders, research
helps in providing designs which are creatively beautiful
and at the same time give more convenience and
efficiency as they utilize modern technology to adapt to
the ever changing society.