Blog #6 Biases in the Choice of the Research Method

As a researcher, which particular research methods (quantitative, qualitative, or a combination) do you tend to gravitate towards and why?

I personal don’t have a particular means of research methods. Whatever gets the job done is what I will go with at this point of my academic and professional career. Just knowing the difference in methods and analysis is a step closer to what will allow me to be successful in my endeavors in life. Any form of methods is good, but based off whatever my outcome will be, is going to allow me to get a definitive approach to any solution I seek while in my professional career.

Do you think it’s important to recognize the biases in the choice of the research method? Why?

For the novice researcher, biases in what method is used is not very important, because they are learning research. For me, to pick between qualitative, qualitative or a combination if both is not important. Getting the job done is very important to me. Personal, I don’t have any biases to the methods portion of research. Depending on the subject I’m researching on, such as eduction achievement gap, I will have some biases on access to technology or access on quality of educators are something I will have some reservation on this subject.

What could determine the use of a particular research method?

There are a lot of factors that can contribute to what type of research methods you can use. for example, time constraints, population availability, knowledge of researcher and best practices of the researcher. Just having the basic knowledge of research can allow social workers make better inform decisions on what will and what may work in introducing interventions and any other modality that can help our future clients.