Alessandro Ferrara, Renee Luthra
Explaining the attainment of the second-generation: When does parental relative education matter?
Social science research
information society vast amount data needs analyzed quantitatively ability perform quantitative analysis based statistical thinking data mining becoming extremely important important research students develop positive attitude towards qualitative quantitative research approaches many research students try avoid applying quantitative methods research prefer rely qualitative research approach due lack interest confidence statistical skills research aims explore research students choice research approach affected attitude towards statistics 81 research students three different universities participated survey one open ended question quantitative data survey analyzed using cluster analysis independent sample ttest applied examine differences attitudes masters doctoral research students data analysis methods crosstabular analysis chisquare anova tests also applied responses open ended question analyzed qualitatively detecting themes focus technique data meaning study found students pursuing postgraduate degrees social science streams keen using quantitative research approach masters students attitudes towards statistics different doctoral students findings research indicate majority students think statistics numeric methods prefer go away choose qualitative approach based findings recommendations changes curriculum presented