Benedict Arnold is infamous for betraying the soldiers at West Point to British troops. Imagine a scholar found records indicati
ng that British historians 50 years later saw Benedict Arnold as a true hero for his country, England, for as much as the colonists on the new continent decried it, they were still, at heart, citizens of the English Empire. What would a researcher studying this contradiction in perspectives call their research?
The researcher could call it qualitative research.
Explanation:
Qualitative research is one that promotes the investigation of data that do not have a mathematical basis, that is, it does not present numerical data, but seeks to investigate issues, opinions, events and characteristics of something or someone. The research shown in the question above is an example of this, as it seeks to investigate and analyze the contradictions surrounding Benedict Arnold and his role during the American Revolution.
