What Hypothetical Research Design Can You Formulate?

What Hypothetical Research Design Can You Formulate?

First Time Customers vs. Repeat Customers. What attracts customers to Carnival Cruise Lines and keeps coming back? A qualitative study.

Given the two methods below, develop a hypothetical design plan for each method based on your envisioned dissertation topic:

Quantitative
Qualitative
For each hypothetical design, provide a discussion of the appropriateness based on course texts and/or suitable supplemental foundational research sources.

Support your paper with a minimum of 5 resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages
References: Minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

Leong, F., & Austin, J. (Eds.). (2006). The psychology research handbook: A guide for graduate students and research assistants. Sage Publications.

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Formulating Hypothetical Research Designs
Introduction
Researchers need an effective hypothetical basis that will guide them through research projects. A hypothetical research design is helpful in getting valuable information regarding the proposed hypothesis. Proper knowledge of the research problem allows researchers to work efficiently by becoming keener in observing the world around them. This paper focuses on what attracts both new and repeat customers to Carnival Cruise Lines.

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