Question

When conducting qualitative analysis, you can use _______ to get basic information about your data. 

A. commonly occurring themes   B. data codes   C. frequency counts   D. the obvious outliers

Answer 1

The correct answer would be option A, Commonly occurring Themes.

Step-by-step explanation:

When conducting qualitative analysis, you can use Commonly Occurring Themes to get basic information about your data. Qualitative analysis involves the information, ideas, message or anything that does not involve figures and data. So when qualitative analysis is being done, the commonly occurring themes are used as these are the messages, or paragraphs, or texts, or research, or summary, or central idea of the thing that you are going to analyze. Themes give the central idea of the topic on which the analysis is being done, so this would give the basic information about it and will be beneficial in conducting the qualitative analysis.

Answer 2

The most useful hint in this question is the word 'qualitative'. This indicates that the answer does not have anything to do with numbers. Then, that would be quantitative, which is another classification.

From the choices given, only choice A does not have to do anything with numbers. By looking at the themes, you can already get a commonality or a signigicant difference in youtr gathered data.