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The epistemological foundations of quantitative research ux-research…
The epistemological foundations of quantitative research
Quantitative research:
Systematic research.
Use statistical techniques.
Collect quantifiable data
In order to test the hypothesis it is true or not.
Epistemologies underlying theory and practice
Post- positivism
under observation is assumed through a “prior understanding of other theories and concepts”
Interpretivism
Used “to group different approaches”
Subjectivism
ives primacy to subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law.
Criticalism
Aims to change existing and limiting social conditions, and not just predicting or explaining reality
Positivism
Holds that valid knowledge (certainty or truth)
Postmodernism
Science is neither universal
Eality cannot be conceived the same by everybody.
Analyze collected information
Diferent Types
Experiential Realism
Realism claims that it is not possible to observe the world
Pragmatism
“That the meaning and the truth of any idea is a function of its practical outcome(s)”
Post- positivism
The investigation is not certain and the investigators must search the reality as best as possible.
positivism world view
which underlines that whatever phenomenon happens in the world has its cause and consequence.
