Research classified according to its method

My neighbour upstairs is talking really loud. He/she needs to shut the fuck up before I go up there and do things to him/her in front of their children which the children will only recall 30 years later, in a mental hospital, under hypnosis of their shrinks that specialize in schizophrenia.

Classification by method
1. Quantitative research
- objective in nature, focuses on the measurement of occurrences or phenomena.

2. Qualititative research
- more subjective in nature and involves examining and reflecting on perceptions and opinions in order to gain an understanding of social and human activities.

3. Triangulation
- In order to overcome the potential bias and the unproductiveness of a single-method approach to research, a number of different methods, approaches and techniques may be used.

Denzin says triangulation is the combination of methodologies in the study of the same phenomenon. "the use of different methods by a number of researchers studying the same phenomenon should, if their conclusions are the same, lead to greater reliability and validity than a single-method approach" Oh wow, what a genius, what a discovery!.. it says it's dated in 1970. so that's like 20000 years ago? I understand now. Human species were rather dumb back then.

I'm sorry If I'm a dick and just can't just sit here and swallow dumb facts. You might as well make me remember a name of some woman who said in 1970 "when playing rock paper scissors, rocks breaks scissors, scissors cuts the paper, and the paper captures the rocks. And thus none of them are actually the strongest." Of course, such woman didn't exist or she could have existed but you don't know her now because her sons and daughters didn't feed the education policy institute money like Denzin's kids did! which is the reason now we have to remember the name of this worthless bastard, who didn't contribute any fresh/interesting idea to the world(Of course, this is merely some story I made up without any basis in historical fact). But it's true that his idea is just worthless.

again, what a fucking discovery! God I'm so irritable!

(UPDATE) I've just realized that Denzin is also the dude who defined triangulation as "the combination of methodologies in the study of the same phenomenon." How awesome is that shit, you write down what people are too negligent to explain in words and all of a sudden you are a sociologist. Of course my anger doesn't have any basis in reality. I'm too indifferent to actually care and have a look at who he really was. And what his theory of strategies of multiple triangulation was about.

(ANOTHER update) I'm cracking up reading this, Denzin was actually quite a reasonable guy.

Here before anything, I would like to write about the origin of triangulation.
It's quite interesting actually. According to this book "administrative science quarterly (what a fucking name)", triangular metaphor is from navigation and military strategy that use the multiple reference points to locate an object's exact position. Given basic principles of geometry, multiple viewpoints allow for greater accuracy. Similarly organizational researchers can improve the accuracy of their judgements by collecting different kinds of data bearing on the same phenomenon. INDEED! INDEED! Can there be any other philosophy of life more clever than this? or maybe I'm just very susceptible tonight. Who knows, maybe I will rebuke his claim first thing tomorrow.

(UPDATE 3) An early reference to triangulation was an unobstrusive method proposed by Webb at al(1966)

"Once a proposition has been confirmed by two or more independent measurement processes, the uncertainty of its interpretation is greatly reduced. The most persuasive evidence comes through a triangulation of measurement processes"

now, what do we have here? Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Lowe(1991)
1. Data triangulation - data is collected at different times or from different sources
2. Investigator triangulation - different researchers indepedently collecting data on the same phenomenon and compare results
3. Methodological triangulation - both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection are used.

Triangulation(convergent methodology)
Advantage: more productive than the rest/enhancement of qualitative methods/quantitative methods.

Disadvantage: time consuming

(UPDATE)

Denzin drew a distinction between within-method and
between-method triangulation. The former involves the use of varieties of the same
method to investigate a research issue; for example, a self-completion questionnaire
might contain two contrasting scales to measure emotional labor. Between-method
triangulation involved contrasting research methods, such as a questionnaire and
observation.