ARE QUANTITATIVE METHODS AS SUPERIOR TO QUALITATIVE METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AS FORMAL OPERATIONAL REASONING IS SUPERIOR TO PREOPERATIONAL REASONING?
A FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF BIAGGIO'S ANALOGY
Abstract
Biaggio (1985) argues for an analogy in reasoningbetween that at Piagetian stages and that of two research methodologiesin psychology; namely, the phenomenological-qualitativeand the experimental-quantitative. This paper describes the essentialfeatures of the two research methodologies and of Piagetian theory.The review suggests that Biaggio is to be credited for sensitizingresearchers to issues that distinguish the two methodologies and foridentifying a possible analogy between qualitative analyses andpreoperational reasoning. However, to the extent that Piaget's stages presume continuity in reasoning whereas the two research methodologiesare conceptually discontinuous, the analogy may besomewhat misleading.
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