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Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I am your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me, as always, is my co-host Julia Galev.

Julia, what's our topic today?

Massimo, today is another very special episode of the Rationally Speaking podcast.

That's right, listeners.

Our Christmas gift to you all, our non, listeners, our Christmas gift to you all,

our non-denominational holiday gift to you all this year is a full hour of Q&A with me and

Massimo tackling the toughest questions that you all threw at us on the Rationally Speaking

blog. We've got a really good lineup this time. So let's get

started. So I guess this could be interpreted as a gift or as Santa bringing in the call,

right? Depending on how you look at it. Yeah. No, I know you're all thinking, how do Massimo

and Julia always know exactly what I want. We know, we know listeners. So let's get started.

Okay, the first question is, it's a great question. It's from

Gill. And he asks, can we say that quantitative research is more scientific than qualitative

research on average? Or does it all depend on the logic and the arguments? Are there any criteria

or characteristics of good qualitative

research? Yeah, that's a great question. Qualitative research has a bad reputation among

some scientists, but I think it's undeserved. We should first just define what it is. Yes. So I,

well, I'll tell you how I think of the difference. I'd say that in qualitative

research, you're, you're collecting non-numerical information. So instead of measuring something,

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