A fleeting thought: if your aim is to quantify culture through an outsider-located perspective, the risk* is you will still distort the specifics of the culture under investigation. In the same way that labelling the plant changes the make-up of the plant, quantitative research is similarly transformative. The gaze of the researcher is not negligible. But quantitative approaches continue to be seen as bias-free expertism. It is still top of the academic hierarchy, and it is still believed that in the pursuit of knowledge, such models outperform mixed-mode processes. Ludicrously, proponents of quantitative research still claim they operate from a value-free framework. Within the world of qualitative research work, it is openly acknowledged that individual action and experience intersect with culture. Also, we like description and detail and the people over at Castle Quantity deal in generalizations. Basically hang with us because we're the liberal positivists and they're the boring dullards
*definite likelihood
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