Quantitative Research Designs

Quantitative Research Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Subject and section Professor’s Name Question 1 It is common for a researcher to select a quantitative rather than a qualitative design to control the activity and gather more accurate data. Quantitative research is also capable of employing instruments whereby measures of variables are arrived at, and data can be analyzed statistically. This method proves appropriate for hypothesis testing, research relations, and prediction because it employs numerical data and statistics. Furthermore, quantitative research also makes the possibility of generalization possible since the entire population can adopt the study's results from a large sample of randomly chosen people. Quantitative research is also highly structured, making it easily replicable by independent parties, affording the reliability of the study's results. Quantitative research is very efficient since it derives facts by using measurable data to produce results that have massive proof of different hypotheses through research. Question 2 For this reason, the concepts of a research question and hypothesis are fundamental in the research process. A research question, on the other hand, is a general question that can be used to frame the study to elicit research findings that can seek to explain, describe, or give information on a specific phenomenon. It makes the audience understand what the researcher is about to explore. On the other hand, a hypothesis is a specific statement that should be able to be tested based on a research question (Scheel et al., 2021). It forecasts the association between variables under test depending on the existing theory and previous studies. Specifically, the research question defines the broad study area, while the hypothesis gives one or more testable predictions about the study's findings. This evolution from a general research question to a narrowed-down hypothesis guarantees the resear...