assignment: Add to the conversation by developing points raised by your colleagues in terms of pertinent scholarly and scriptural perspectives, for two summaries. please separate response to both thoughts. Each section requires 200 word count response.
1A. I see a tremendous amount of value in quantitative research. Quantitative research provides data that can be used in various different situations. Quantitative data can be helpful with Single study research, observational research, correlational research, qualitative research, non-experimental research and survey research. This is because quantitative research generally involves obtaining factual data in order to bind or explore statistics with an explanation. quantitative methodology could be appropriate for many types of psychological research. A few include obtaining data about populations retaining data about emotional or physical responses used to analyze data involving larger populations and it can be used when one wants to maintain research ethics. At the very least, quantitative methodology is relevant for research on the psychology of religion and spirituality because it provides the framework for whatever topic it is that you desire to research within religion or spirituality. For example, if I wanted to explore the effects of praising within a church compared to praising outside in nature on the body I would first need to obtain quantitative data on how many people within a population have praise in a church and in nature. Once I have those numbers I can further explore that topic and analyze my findings.
1B.Quantitative measurement is a measurement of data that uses numbers. The goal of quantitative data is to run statistical analysis, so that data has to be in numerical form. The data are usually in the form of tables, graphs, or other forms of statistics. Like psychology, using one type of method or a different kind of practice has become controversial and even ideology in the social sciences. Researchers who apply quantitative methods disapprove that using this type of plan obscures the reality of the social phenomena under study because they underestimate or neglect the non-measurable factors, which may be the most important. When applying quantitative methods, it is possible to give precise and specific expressions to qualitative ideas. Quantitative is said to be important to the study of religion by being less biased. You would be able to measure “who is religious and to what extent, by age, sex, ethnicity, marital status, and class. You will also be able to explore how religion and religiosity are related with values, attitudes, and behavior, and allows us to analyze those theories about the causes and consequences of religious involvement (Storm, 2010)”. But there are objections. Some of those objections are that “religion may be too complex to be classified and the quantitative methods are too streamline (Storm, I., 2010)”.
