That statement is true
These researchers believe that after gathering both qualitative and quantitative data and put them into analysis, it will essentially produce similar results in the end. But they failed to consider that both of these data had their own strength and weakness (for example qualitative data tend to be really subjective and less accurate)
I believe the answer is: globalization
globalization refers to the process of interraction and integration that being done by people from different countries. Globalization provide wide opportunities for countries to learn from each other and develop a trading relationship with one another, which would most likely lead to economic growth.
Many people contributed to the deciphering of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs,
but the final and most deciding contribution was done by Jean-Francois
Champollion, a French scholar, who was able to compare the Egyptian
script to a text in the known Greek one thanks to the discovery of
Rosetta Stone, a stone with the same text in three languages: two types
of Egyptian and the known Greek one