PS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
18 Dec 2017
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Qualitative - interviews, observations, archival, and other documentary research. Inductive reasoning - beginning with case studies in order to generate theory. Quantitative - statistical analysis and mathematical models. Deductive reasoning - starts with a theory that can be tested with an array of data. Their goal is to examine a topic or research problem rarely studied, investigated or that has not been addressed before. Help to get familiarized with relatively unknown phenomena. The goal is to say what and how a certain phenomenon manifests itself. Measure or evaluate various aspects, dimensions or components of the phenomenon under study. What determines that a study starts as exploratory, descriptive, etc.
