I need to define hard data and soft data for one of my classes, however I have tried googling both terms with no luck. I tried the following searchs: hard data, soft data, "hard data," "soft data," define "hard data," and define "soft data." Can someone please help me???
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Hard data is what can be described with some specificity, which usually means it is quantified. For example, the speed of a car measured at regular intervals is hard data. Statistics are another form of hard data.
Soft data is anecdotal, usually gathered in informal communications and lacks the rigor that is implied in statistical data. Soft data is often presented in the form of quotes and anecdotes. For example, the quote "she said that the project deadline would slip by a week" is soft data.
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Hypothesis - An unproved theory or proposition scientific method - the way in which you prove something by scientific means experiment - A reasearch exercise in which you try to prove certain theories control - a separate experiment in which there is no variable, it is to have something to relate back to the experiment Independent variable- a factor that can be varied or manipulated in an experiment to proce something dependent variable - the thing that you are trying to measure in an experiment, responds to the indepent variable theory - something that has yet to be proved by hard evidence to be true, but has not been ruled out as not functional quantative data - data the provides hard evidence eg numbers and percentages qualitative data - soft data that approximates, qualitative describes while quantative gives hard evidence this is all correct, I have done the equivalent of a level chemistry biology and physics.
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I need to define hard data and soft data for one of my classes, however I have tried googling both terms with no luck. I tried the following searchs: hard data, soft data, "hard data," "soft data," define "hard data," and define "soft data." Can someone...
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