Meaning: Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Synonyms: deliverance; rescue; saving; delivery. Context examples: work is the deliverance of mankind / a surgeon's job is the saving of lives. Hypernyms (rescue is a kind of...): recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of rescue): lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons) redemption; salvation ((Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil) reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)
The main difference between qualitative and quantitative methods is flexibility. As a whole, quantitative methods have relative inflexibility. Qualitative methods are usually more flexible, allowing more naturalness and acclimatization for the interaction and collaboration between the researcher and the participant.
Research methods are split broadly into quantitative and qualitative methods. Which you choose will depend on your research questions, your underlying philosophy of research, and your preferences and skills. Our pages Introduction to Research Methods and Designing Research set out some of the issues about the underlying philosophy. This page provides an introduction to the broad principles of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and the advantages and disadvantages of each in particular situations. Some definitions Quantitative research is âexplaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are analysed using mathematically based methods (in particular statistics).