Question

HUM/375CA

What are similarities and differences between how natural scientists, humanities experts, writers, mathematicians, and artists conduct inquiry?

Answer 1

The natural scientists and mathematicians would conduct a pure quantitative research to gather facts regarding a concept. Their data would be purely statistically analysed and interpreted. The research method would be of experimental type that would be carried out mostly in a controlled laboratory settings. The inquiry may include larger sample. The aim is to find out truth regarding a matter in a more object manner in a scientific way. Humanities expert may also conduct this type of inquiry.

The writers, artists and sometimes the humanities experts conduct qualitative inquiry. The aim of this type of enquite is find out the truth of a matter in subjective manner of the scientific way. The qualitative enquiry interprets and analyse human interaction fron their point of view of the study. Smaller groups are studied. The method of inquiry uses studies in their natural settings.

Thus, both the methods of inquiry uses scientific way to explore or discover the truth regarding a matter. They interpret and analyse the information that is gathered and reach a conclusion.