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[Numbers are also words].

Joaquin Moncho Vasallo
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The author, leaving aside his development as a statistician, opens up to other proposals, reviewing some studies about qualitative research methodology as related to health sciences. He concludes that qualitative research complements quantitative research and that a subjective element exists in both: numbers are also words because behind numbers there is a reflexive process and a human interpretation.

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Joaquin Moncho Vasallo. 2006. [Numbers are also words].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16613086/

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