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Someone told me that quantitative research somehow is relevant in the natural sciences. How?

In exchange, respectable gentlemen.

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Sorry, of course it's qualitative research I'm talking about.

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>>4219922

Einstein's first works on General relativity were qualitative.

Nuff sed?

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>>4219936

mah nigger. Is there any books or guidelines for when natural sciences do qualitative research? I'm a social scientist myself and are familiar with a few methods (grounded theory, hermeneutics) for qualitative research, but awful interested in scientific theory in general and taken a few courses on the subject. And I'm not really the "hurr durr it's all relative" kind of asshole social science student either.

And I've learned that wikipedia tend to be, well, shit if you want to learn about something new without getting the bastard version of it.