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Quantitative Research

Research that tells you how many and how often.

Definition

Research producing numeric data that can be aggregated and analysed statistically.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

Research that tells you how many and how often.

Example

A funnel showing 43 percent of users abandon at the payment step.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

The full entry behind this definition.

Related concept

Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.