Turning qualitative into quantitative evidence: a well-used method made explicit1
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Turning qualitative into quantitative evidence: a well-used method made explicit By A. W. CARUS and SHEILAGH OGILVIE
Many historians reject quantitative methods as inappropriate to understanding past societies.This article argues that no sharp distinction between qualitative and quantitative concepts can be drawn, as almost any concept used to describe a past society is implicitly quantitative. Many recent advances in understanding have been achieved by deriving quantitative evidence from qualitative evidence...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Economic History Review
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0013-0117,1468-0289
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00486.x