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A substantial amount of _____	data, in the form of open-ended interviews with physicians, was gathered in order to help design these studies.quantitativeimplicitvaluablequalitativeexplictans- qualitative

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

I see no necessity for 'qualitative' to be the answer; 'quantitative' and 'valuable' would fit as well.  It is a poorly-written question.

Hasibul Alam · Answer

but they explained like this

The phrase "in the form of open-ended interviews with physicians" modifies the blank. A Filler as simple as "open-ended" or "interview" ought to suffice.
(A) Quantitative means "of or about numbers or measurement." There is no reason to expect open-ended interviews to produce quantitative data.

(B) Implicit means "unstated or logically implied." Neither meaning has a necessary relationship with open-ended interviews.

(C) The information may or may not have been valuable. We know that the information was gathered to "help design these studies," but that implies only that someone expected it to be valuable.

(D) CORRECT. Qualitative refers to "subjective," individual data. This sort of data, rather than quantitative data, is the sort that one would expect from open-ended interviews.

(E) Explicit means "fully and clearly expressed." Although we might expect any data consciously and deliberately gathered to be explicit, there is no reason to expect that data from open-ended interviews will be any more explicit than other data.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Hasibul Alam(A) Quantitative means "of or about numbers or measurement." There is no reason to expect open-ended interviews to produce quantitative data.

And there is no reason to expect that they will not.

Hasibul Alam(B) Implicit means "unstated or logically implied." Neither meaning has a necessary relationship with open-ended interviews

Right.

Hasibul Alam(C) The information may or may not have been valuable. We know that the information was gathered to "help design these studies," but that implies only that someone expected it to be valuable.

Precisely, —it may have been valuable, so 'valuable' cannot be discounted as an answer.

Hasibul AlamD) CORRECT. Qualitative refers to "subjective," individual data. This sort of data, rather than quantitative data, is the sort that one would expect from open-ended interviews.

Right. The explanation is not convincing, however.

Hasibul AlamE) Explicit means "fully and clearly expressed." Although we might expect any data consciously and deliberately gathered to be explicit, there is no reason to expect that data from open-ended interviews will be any more explicit than other data.

Again, there is no reason to expect that the data is not explicit.

All in all, a poorly written question. In short, the question does not represent 'objectivity, comparability and accountability'.

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