quantoid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]quantoid (plural quantoids)
- (derogatory) An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
- 2001, John Gerring, Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework, page 2:
- […] quantoids and qualitoids have developed different languages and different approaches to their topics. They are accustomed to arguing with each other or ignoring each other.
- 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
- The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.
- (mathematics, obsolete) The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.
- 1875, Philosophical Magazine, page 440:
- It indicates a certain relation between two differential equations, quantoids, or quotoids, whereof one is a transformation of the other by change of the independent variable.