so within the realm of fitness testing there are a number of questions that you can get surrounding
validity reliability practicality and methods of data collection and the question that we
have here it's asking you about qualitative data and we couldn't we can't have qualitative and we
can have quantitative now the difference between quality and quantity is quality is subjective and
quantity is objective and what i mean by that is qualitative is your personal opinions your
perspective on something whereas quantitative or objective data is it's unbiased there's no opinion
that's related to the data that's being collected so when we look down this list what we're looking
for are two things where the client's opinion doesn't really come into it it's what we make of
something so it's our take on the information so we might be making notes in our own way we might
be watching something and we write down what we think that we can see and what we can take from
what's going on in front of us so if we look down here we've got interviews
observations surveys and questionnaires there are four different options that they've given
us and within these four categories we've got two from qualitative and two from quantitative
now question is they are completely done by the client by the person that you are collecting the
data from and then from those questions you can then tabulate and you know put into graphs and
tables and compare and contrast quite clearly lots of different clients responses so questionnaires
are a good way to elicit quantitative data now within the questionnaire there might be a section
for the person to write down their personal opinion and that might be qualitative in a sense
but it's still dictated by the client so what we're looking for are two methods that we can
actually get the data from from our perspective so questionnaires we write the questions yes but it's
number form it's data form from the client so that is that that's not what we're looking for
so we can rule out d and oh that's that's the only one the question is surveys now this is similar to
a questionnaire we're handing out information or handing out the questions we're then collecting
the data back now if we have multiple clients we'd be able to compare and contrast the responses to
each question so again there's quite a narrow form of data that we're actually collecting back
so we're looking for things such as interviews where it's quite open-ended and we might have a
few set questions in there but the interview might be fairly fluid fairly open it might
just roll with the punches and if it does the questionnaire the person who's actually
asking the questions they're actually you know they're they're following you know no set script
they might ask questions based off the answer which means that every single interview is going
to be different it's going to be subjective as well as observations the person who is observing
they're writing down what they see unfold in front of them so the context might be the same
in different clients but it's the observer's own perspective which is creating the data
you could have 10 different observers watching the same thing and you might generate 10 pieces
of different data so it's a qualitative base it's quite descriptive in nature we're
watching something which is very hard to to to actually quantify and to put numbers and and
use empirical data surrounding it so what we're looking for here are interviews
and observations questionnaires and surveys great for actually getting back numerical
data from a large populace and in doing so we can then compare and contrast those numbers
interviews they're very one-to-one and we can ask a whole range of questions which
elicit unique responses to that client and then observations is your own personal perspective
looking on at a performance or something which is happening in front of you or that's been filmed
but it's your take on it so the answer to this one which one of these are super messed for collecting
qualitative data interviews and observations question a now this question could have been
quantitative data which is where we could have used questionnaires a little bit better
we could do surveys and things like that so hope that helped i'll see you again in the next one