Qualitative Data

 more strengths and weaknesses rather than advantages and disadvantages but hey :)

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Qualitative Data

Advantages

  • descriptive nature
  • allows more depth of analysis
  • leads to more meaningful conclusions about the participants views
  • increases validity

Disadvantages

  • difficult to draw comparisons between groups
  • difficult to arrive at a reliable conclusion about a specific thing
  • more time consuming to achieve
  • not reliable - cannot replicate and achieve same data

Evaluation

You can achieve more detailied data which can increase the validity of the experiment, however it is very time consuming and isn't reliable.

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