Quantitative research methods for the hard of thinking

[Northernsoullover]

I posted this here in the hope of traffic but the thread title isn't really exciting, I live in hope..
Has anyone found a really easy way to understand quantitative research methods? I've tried books, YouTube but my brain just shuts down.
Qualitative is fine. I have an assignment on both

I've kept my favourite books from my MSc.

Punch (2005) Introduction to Social Research
Robson (2011) Real World Research

• Both very straightforward and accessible. Have quantitative and qualitative sections.

Tarling (2009) Statistical Modelling for Social Researchers

• More in depth, but good explanations

Good luck, I really struggled with quantitative stuff at first but didn't mind it by the end

What's the discipline or if you don't want to say, eg sciences, social sciences etc?

Thank you. I shall get onto ordering them right away.

@exceptionallybored

What's the discipline or if you don't want to say, eg sciences, social sciences etc?

Health Sciences. Masters level. Somehow I winged it in my undergraduate. Who knew that a sampling error wasn't actually a mistake? 😂

OK, not my field at all. If you're on the social sciences side of that, I like Bryman Social Research Methods as a good introductory guide to a range of methods. Probably worth looking to see if it and others are in your Uni library before you fork out.

Anything by Creswell is usually very readable and not too hard.

I hate quants me

We used Bryman a lot (social sciences)

That one was expensive though so I just kept renewing it from the library!

I love Andy Field's Adventure in Statistics - it's written in the form of a story, it's great!

I did masters level stats for social science and honestly the only way I got through it was actually spending the time on it, going through it very slowly.

My kids were young at the time and I used to start once they’d gone to bed around 7.30. Mostly I’d be up until 3/4am just plodding my way through it.

What I’m saying is there’s an expectation you should ‘get it’ straight away, even in an hour or so of attention, but my experience was it took hours and hours to actually get your head around it properly. With the help of a textbook obviously!