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While reading furthermore on quantitative methods based on research in religion. The article "Researching Religion Using Quantitative Methods," mentioned how complex religion truly is and why we should consider this as an integral aspect. "That the phenomenon of religion is too complex to attempt to quantify at all, is that the effort to classify and measure forces us to be clear and open to criticism. While it is true that religion is a complex phenomenon, this makes it all the more important that researchers are clear about which aspects of religion their analyses are concerned with and to what populations their results can be generalised to."(research.kent.ac.uk/religion-methods, page 1). This observation did not surprise me whereas it was interesting to learn how religion i not considered a measurable data. “Descriptive statistics measures are the mean (average), the variance, and distributions. These are useful for summarising data and presenting in a manageable form and can be expressed either as numbers, or graphically in a chart. Q Search Discussion 4 | Research of Reli X + a Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Learning Extras Resources WE Assessments X : 7:49 AM 1/31/2024 X R + Verify LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ? Inbox (31,839) - sayansola5@XM Week 4 cultural psyc initial po x My LAPU https://course.lapu.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=1359656 Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support V useful for summarising data and presenting in a manageable form and can be expressed either as numbers, or graphically in a chart. Univariate analysis is looking at one variable at a time."(research.kent.ac.uk/religion-methods, page 8). Explains how using descriptive statistics can help provide collaborative data using the average percentage of religious groups. The strengths of qualitative methods considering religious groups and spiritual beliefs. Are qualitative is a method to relate "Qualitative data is often collected through direct or indirect observation, or by asking open-ended questions."(www.techtarget.com/searchcio , April 2023). The strength of qualitative is the collective data using descriptive methods. "Popular collection methodologies include the following: Interviews, Focus groups, Open-ended survey questions, Fieldwork."(www.techtarget.com/searchcio , April 2023). Weaknesses of the qualitative method include the longitudinal nature of analysis. "It can be very time-consuming to collect and analyze Q Search Discussion 4 | Research of Reli X + a Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Learning Extras Resources WE Assessments X : 7:49 AM 1/31/2024 X R + Verify LOS ANGELES PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ? Inbox (31,839) - sayansola5@XM Week 4 cultural psyc initial po x My LAPU https://course.lapu.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=1359656 Home Dashboard My courses Helps APU Library Tech Support the average percentage of religious groups. The strengths of qualitative methods considering religious groups and spiritual beliefs. Are qualitative is a method to relate "Qualitative data is often collected through direct or indirect observation, or by asking open-ended questions."(www.techtarget.com/searchcio , April 2023). The strength of qualitative is the collective data using descriptive methods. "Popular collection methodologies include the following: Interviews, Focus groups, Open-ended survey questions, Fieldwork."(www.techtarget.com/searchcio , April 2023). Weaknesses of the qualitative method include the longitudinal nature of analysis. "It can be very time-consuming to collect and analyze qualitative data. This is why qualitative data researchers tend to use sampling in their analysis."(www.techtarget.com/searchcio , April 2023). Reference V Q Search Discussion 4 | Research of Reli X + a Activities Assignments Forums Labs or Learning Extras Resources WE Assessments X : 7:49 AM 1/31/2024 X R +