Describe three main differences between qualitative and quantitative research methods and one similarity between them.

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(1) Whereas qualitative methods are concerned with social context, quantitative research is focused more on discrete features. (2) Qualitative research methods focus on unstudied phenomena and do not go in with preformulated hypotheses; but this is the motive of quantitative research. (3) The data collected is different. Qualitative methods collect qualitative data and quantitative method collect quantitative data. One similarity is that they follow a similar research project-they still sample, collect data, analyze data, make connections, for example.

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