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What are the major differences between quantitative and qualitative research?

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Qualitative: Description with your own point of view: Description with numbers, exact.

ex: the table is blue; that would be qualitative data, because another person mite disagree and say it was red. all though if i measured the table and said it was 42cm, that would be quantitative, because im using numbers and its an exact measurement.
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