Analyzing Quantitative Data: From Description to Explanation

By N. Blaikie. 2000

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Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, background): “This type of measurement is, by nature, ordinal, even if researchers assume for practical reasons that they are continuous (Blaikie 2003, 24).”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “In quantitative research, variability implies the degree of dispersion of a variable (Blaikie, 2003); we use variability to describe how an affordance has range.”