Positivists prefer questionnaires because they achieve the main positivist goals of ____, generalisability and ____: ____ questions and answers produce reliable data because other researchers can ____ the questionnaire ____ responses allow us to produce ____ data, identify and ____ behaviour patterns and establish a ____ relationship. Questionnaires are often ____-scale and therefore more representative ____ reject the use of questionnaires because they imposed the research as a framework of ideas on respondents. This tells us little about the meanings held by social actors. Questionnaires fail to achieve the main interpretivist goal of ____ Questionnaires typically use ____-ended questions with ____ response options. ____ prefer questionnaires because they allow for the collection of ____, quantifiable data that can be ____ analysed using statistical methods. This allows for easy ____ of results across different populations, time periods, or contexts, ____ the identification of patterns and trends. This approach aligns with positivism, which emphasises the importance of empirical observation and the ____ process of gathering data to produce ____, factual knowledge. Questionnaires can also be ____ to a diverse group of people, making it possible to collect data from a larger sample with a ____ range of individuals, than might be possible through other methods.

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