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Six example sentences with qualitative, each labelled with its topic.
The team ran qualitative interviews first, letting forty parents describe bedtime in their own words before any survey was written.
Psychology
Sales numbers alone missed the problem, so the manager added qualitative notes from every technician who visited a customer.
Business
A qualitative survey of the riverbank recorded smell, color, and the sound of insects, none of which a meter reports.
Environment
Before writing a line of code, the founders did qualitative research, watching twelve nurses use the old paper charts.
Startups
The report added a qualitative section describing how shopkeepers felt about the new tax, not just what they paid.
Economics
Bergson argued that lived time is qualitative, a matter of felt intensity rather than countable seconds.
Philosophy
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