With the Information Deluge ( think IoT , Big Data, Engagement Economy…) , it does not require crystal ball gazing to determine that Qual and Quant approaches will need to cross-fertilise- with Quant learning to deal with fuzziness and context and Qual with huge sets of data and structure. Stands to reason that practitioners need to start understanding more...If you are a researcher , qual or quant but do not possess a sense of humour- do Not proceed ! The Qual/Quant divide has been a part of life as we know it and the stress involved in getting the twain to meet has prematurely greyed many managers !!
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If you are a researcher , qual or quant but do not possess a sense of humour- do Not proceed ! The Qual/Quant divide has been a part of life as we know it and the stress involved in getting the twain to meet has prematurely greyed many managers !!
Quali perceives quant to be shovelling tons of data as throughput! Quant sees itself though as the steady ,solid Thinker!
This is where self-view and others view of self possibly coincide!
The Quant researcher sees the Qual as a diva holding forth ;The Quali sees self as hard-working ,have-to-do-everything-myself …
Welllll, S.E. !
Shades of grey vs. B&W
Fuzzy Logic is good! As is Binary. There would be no computers without binary logic and there would be no decisions without fuzzy logic!
Spartan Who?
Probability is ,everything's Random nowadays!
Quant researchers need a finite scale…how else would you compare mean scores?! Qual gets to be meaningfully different !
Words are Qual fodder and the mode, the means to derive more meaning! I find Quant folk to be more mean minded!
Self-explanatory ! The Quant researcher needs a ready structure whereas the Quali compatriot spins structure out of context!
The Norm ! Said in hushed sepulchral tones …
With the Information Deluge ( think IoT , Big Data, Engagement Economy…) , it does not require crystal ball gazing to determine that Qual and Quant approaches will need to cross-fertilise- with Quant learning to deal with fuzziness and context and Qual with huge sets of data and structure
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