Week 1 Post 1

This is only my second ever Psychology class and I am so fascinated how the information from this class relates to other subjects I have already studied.  Early this year I took a Biology class and of course we talked about the scientific method, but for some reason I feel like I better understand it now then I have read about it and have seen how it applies to other topics.  In addition to that, I have also learned how empirical data relates to various subjects as well.  Not only did I learn about empirical data in this class during my first week this semester, but I literally also learned about it in both my Sociology class as well as my Statistics class.  I learned that empirical data is the information you get from research that can be measured.  Empirical data can either be qualitative or quantitative.  Qualitative is descriptive data and quantitative numerical data.  I feel like both qualitative and quantitative data are needed when trying to best describe the information you have collected.  I do however feel that since quantitative data deals with numbers it helps the researcher get their point across better since it is more catching to the reader’s eye.  After reading this chapter and learning about this information in two of my other classes, I really do see how both the scientific method as well as empirical data relates to other similar topics and how they build off of each other.