Sep
27
Refrigerator Mother Defined
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A refrigerator mother was a term used by the medical profession to describe autistic children’s’ mothers as back in the 50’s, mothers were routinely blamed for their children’s’ behavior habits, including self-isolation, speech difficulties and rigid type rituals. It was used as an assumptive label, but in the 70’s many mothers of autistic children […]
Sep
12
Qualitative Data Defined
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Qualitative data describes information by its quality versus its value. In the case of research, it is of less value to the scientific community or economic community than quantitative data because it is intangible and subjective. However, quantitative data can be approximated from qualitative data whereby a rating system is used to evaluate […]
