What is right for your dissertation – qualitative or quantitative research?

[Baker Lee]

Many students find it difficult to understand the demands of their dissertations; hence, they are unable to select between qualitative and quantitative research. If you are also in this dilemma, ask yourself the following questions: (a) Do I need an expert’s opinion on this topic or do I need the public’s viewpoint? (b) Do I need detailed answers or am I looking for short answers? If you need an expert’s opinion or detailed answers, you ought to conduct qualitative research in the form of in-depth interviews. On the other hand, if you need the public’s viewpoint or short answers, you should go for quantitative research in the form of surveys and polls.

[Laura]

What if I need public’s viewpoint in long answers?

[Richard]

Laura, to seek people’s opinion with the use of long questions, you can increase the number of options in your Questionnaire. Also, add more Subjective Questions than Multiple Choice Objective Questions.

[Peter Chan]

Choosing the right research method is very important.

[Jason Evans]

yes it is very important to get the correct results

[Thomas Latson]

The outcome only depends on the method of RM one has chosen

[Detra]

It depends on the subject area and the topic that what type of method we should adopt.

[Jackie Lora]

Very useful tips. I will surely follow them when i’ll come to that part of my research.

[Author]

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