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Qualitative Research I. The differences between qualitative and quantitative inquiry are essentially that one, quantitative, is oriented towards the quantity of facts, what the statistical evidence tells us about a question under study and results that can be replicated. While qualitative inquiry focuses on the quality of the subject under study. Specifically in quantitative data according to our textbook quantitative methods require the use of standardized measures of inquiry resulting in "...broad, generalizable set of findings presented succinctly and parsimoniously (Patton, 2001, 14)." Qualitative data is not as elegant in its pithy statistical summary of the facts, but what it lacks in brevity I believe it makes up for in richness. The quality of the insights generated is what matters, not the number of such insights (Patton, 2001, 7). There is certainly value to each approach or a combination of the two depending on the subject under study. However, I may be biased towards the qualitative approach that provides the opportunity for rich, narrative detail and/or the personal