quantoid

An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.

Noun

  1. An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
    • […] 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. - 2001, John Gerring, Social Science...
    • 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. - 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos...
  2. The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.
    • 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. - 1875, Philosophical Magazine, page 440:

Forms

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