Qualitative researcher refers to a a type of researcher who predominantly use non-numerical (non-countable) data as their main source.
For social scientist, most of their data comes in the form of emotion and personal perspective from the people that come from various background in society. These emotion and personal perspective is not something that we can count with numerical method.
Which is why we can say that she's a qualitative researcher.
This is called the <span>experiential intelligence. This is a second stage in the Sternberg's groundbreaking theory which took more cognitive approach to intelligence. This stage deals with how well we solve problems in relation to how well we are familiar with it. </span>