Advantages of Positivism/Quantitative Methods

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  • Created on: 25-05-14 14:23
High in reliability
Because each respondent has to answer the same questions, this will increase the likelihood of another researcher gaining the same results
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Value free
The research is objective and thus there is no interviewer bias affecting the research
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Objective
There is no personal opinion affecting the research
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Large scale data
Quantitative data can be used on large samples, making it more representative
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Quantitative data can be used on large samples, making it more representative

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