Gang Leader for a Day

In the book Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh took a different approach to studying black poverty. Instead of taking the normal approach of just surveying a bunch of poor blacks (quantitative study). He decided that the best way to understand how it feels to be poor and black would be just to hang out with a black gang ( qualitative data). With him becoming good friends with J.T, the gang leader. He truly finds out how gangs operate, the kind of life they live and how it feels to be black and poor. That is why qualitative study is just as, if not more important than quantitative. You get a way better sense of emotion when you observe people instead of just surveying with multiple choice answers. Quantitative study is still important because the more people you work with, the more variety you have in your answers. If you wanted to know whether to send your child to a school or not, you should look at the average ACT and GPA because that will give u a good look at how strong academically the school, but also look into what kind of groups and clubs they have after school.