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variety of meanings. In its most common usage, it refers either to a method, to the field of inquiry studying methods, or to philosophical discussions of background assumptions involved in these processes. The term "methodology" is sometimes used as a synonym for the term "method." A method is a way of reaching some predefined goal. It is a planned and structured procedure for solving a theoretical or practical problem. For example, descriptive statistics is a method of data analysis. Radiocarbon dating is a method of determining the age of organic objects, etc. There are 2 types: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative is closely associated with the natural sciences. It is based on precise numerical measurements, which are then used to arrive at exact general laws. Examples of quantitative research include physicists at the Large Hadron Collider measuring the mass of newly created particles and positive psychologists conducting an online survey to determine the correlation between income and self-assessed well-being. Qualitative is often used in contrast to quantitative research for forms of study that do not quantify their subject matter numerically.