qualitative

adjective

qual·i·ta·tive ˈkwä-lə-ˌtā-tiv

: of, relating to, or involving quality or kind

qualitatively adverb

Examples of qualitative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Combine the qualitative insights from the focus groups with the quantitative metrics from the surveys. —

Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023 Students draw on their research and their qualitative and quantitative skills to prepare final oral and written analyses and recommendations. —

Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023 The qualitative change clearly isn’t to everyone’s taste. —

Reuters, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023 Jigsaw also posted results of a recent qualitative study in which researchers interviewed people who had had posts or accounts removed by mainstream social media platforms as a result of enforcement actions. —

Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 14 July 2023 Researchers also conducted qualitative interviews and analyzed hundreds of thousands of tweets. Types of threats and harassment ranged from aggressive or hostile language to physically restricting people’s movement, death threats and showing up at people’s homes, the research found. —

City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023 Nominees are evaluated based on qualitative and quantitative measures that weigh an investor’s momentum, position, reputation and other variables. —

Truebridge Capital, Forbes, 4 May 2023 Deborah Padgett, a professor at Silver School of Social Work at New York University who studies homelessness, conducted a small qualitative study of people moved to hotels during the pandemic. —

Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023 But that’s success in metrics only—quantitative, not qualitative. —

WIRED, 25 July 2023 See More

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