Research Terminology Dictionary   Characteristics of Quantitative Research O’Leary offers a tightly packed summary of the “quantitative tradition” in figure 8.1, page 121: Paradigm/assumption: positivism, empiricism Methodology: scientific method, hypothesis driven, deductive, reliable, valid, reproducible, objective, generalizable Methods: large scale, surveys, random control trials Data Type: generally quantitative Analysis: statistics This is so well…