CONBINED USE OF QUALITATIVE WAY AND QUANTITATIVE WAY IN RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION (Special Issue of Reserch Group of Physio-anthropological Evaluation of Dwelling Environment)

Abstract

In this paper, conbined use of the qualitative and quantitative research and analysis on environmental evaluation is discussed. Although quantitative research is effective in searching for hypotheses, it is a problem that results are influenced by an analysis person's subjectivity. Thus, the following techniques are proposed in this paper. 1) The method of conbined use of "evaluation glid method" and "graphical modeling". 2) The method of research and analysis, using "individual scales". 3) The method of analysis on personalized grouping data. These techniques enable exploratry search for hypothesis more rationally (in way which cannot be easily influenced by an analysis person's subjectivity).