Question

State the differences between:

1. Conceptual Research and Empirical Research.
2. Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.
3. Research Method and Research Methodology.         Your answer should not accessed 250 words for each request.

Answer 1

1. Conceptual Research and Empirical Research.

Ans:

Conceptual research is relatable to abstract ideas. It's basically used by philosophers and thinkers to develop new concepts or to reinterpret existing ones. On the other hand, empirical research relies on experience or involves observation alone, often without due regard for system and theory. It is a data-based research, with analyses coming up with conclusions, which are capable of being verified by observation or experiment. We can also call it as ‘experimental type of research. In such a research it is necessary to get at facts at the firsthand, at their source, and actively to go about doing certain things to usually stimulate the production of the desired information. In such a research, the researcher must first provide himself with a working hypothesis or guess as to the probable results. He then works to get enough facts (data) to prove or disprove his hypothesis. He then sets up his experimental designs, which he thinks will manipulate the persons or the materials concerned so as to bring forth the desired information. Such research is thus, characterized by the experimenter’s control over the variables under study and his deliberate manipulation of one of them to study its effects. Empirical research is appropriate when proof is sought that certain variables affect other variables in some way. Evidence gathered through experiments or empirical studies is today considered to be the most powerful support possible for a given hypothesis.

2. Quantitative research and Qualitative Research:

Ans: The main difference between quantitative and qualitative research is that qualitative generates "textual data". Quantitative research on the other hand produces numerical data or any type of information that can therefore be converted into numbers. The data collection toolkit of a qualitative researcher is quite versatile, ranging from completely unstructured to semi-structured techniques whereas the data collection toolkit of a quantitative researcher is not versatile.

3. Research Method vs Research Methodology:

Ans:

If the subject into which you conduct research is a scientific subject or topic, then the research methods include experiments, tests, the study of many other results of different experiments performed earlier about the topic or the subject and the like.

On the other hand, research methodology about the scientific topic involves the techniques regarding how to go about conducting the research, the justification of the use of particular tools of research, advanced techniques that can be used in performing the experiments, and the like.A method is what you did. It is a simple description. You selected, for example, 100 rats and measured their weights. You fed some rats and some not.A week later, you measured their weights again.The methodology is why that should give you a meaningful result and why you used some specified method and not some other one.

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