Nie ma badań jakościowych

Abstract

Dividing empirical research into qualitative and quantitative makes no sense. There are no sufficient substantive reasons for such a distinction, and promoting this vague division only deepens the conceptual confusion in psychology. Even worse, proclaiming a separate qualitative methodology is sometimes used to justify poor science. The term ”qualitative” should refer only to the data, not to the methods of collecting or analyzing them, and certainly not to some overarching research paradigm that is supposedly an alternative to nomothetic science. Defining qualitative research in psychology by contrasting it with quantitative research also fails because the latter is not as ”quantitative” as it is often perceived to be.