In layman's terms, this means that the quantitative researcher asks a specific, narrow question and collects a sample of numerical data from participants to answer the question.

However, similar methods are used by quantitative researchers.

Possibly as a result of the debate between qualitative and quantitative researchers, three evaluation approaches have emerged in the literature examining CSCW systems.

This narrative describes how 'qualitative and quantitative researchers, social scientists and Humanities researchers, continue to work, each in our own worlds, heedless'.

Recently the organizational orientation concept has drawn the attention of quantitative researchers in the field of communication.

When Enron collapsed, he sent a team around the country to interview hundreds of energy traders, meteorologists and quantitative researchers.

Journalists conduct interviews, research documents, undertake joint projects with Insight teams and hire quantitative researchers to undertake polls.

The work produced by quantitative researchers is also deemed more 'trustworthy' and 'unbiased' by the greater public, though this judgment continues to be challenged by antipositivists.

Dr Jonathan Kinlay is quantitative researcher and founder of several quantitative hedge funds.

It is an essential starting point for quantitative researchers, but takes a lesser role for qualitative researchers.