Quantitative research

Based on what we've discussed thus far, why is quantitative research so important to the social sciences? How do statistics inform our ideas on human behavior? NORC uses data sampling techniques with the GSS to strive to obtain a representative sample of US adults. In your early analyses of your project data, what did you learn about each individual variable? Did the numbers surprise you? Why or why not? Based on your crosstabs and measures of association, does it look like your variables have a relationship? What stands out to you?