The Importance of Quantitative Research to Social Sciences

The Importance of Quantitative Research to Social Sciences
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The Importance of Quantitative Research to Social Sciences Quantitative research is a technique used to gather knowledge and understand various concepts in the social world. Social researchers apply quantitative research to observe conditions affecting people and represent them using numerical data, which are later analyzed to understand the trends and make conclusions about specific issues (Williams, 2021). It is a critical technique in social sciences because it helps people gain extensive knowledge about the research subject. Quantitative research uses varied components to meet its objectives. These components include but are not limited to surveys, questionnaires, and interviews used to observe social life in society and the world and large. Notably, the data collected using these channels help researchers give an actual image of the community in numbers (Guo, 2015). There are varied types of quantitative research, and they all have a common goal: to provide information about a particular problem, population, or issue. Statistics deal with numbers, and it is primarily used in...