Define Valid Percent

After the fall of the Roman Empire, much of the philosophies and sciences that were pioneered by Greco-Roman culture were destroyed and or devalued by Europeans. The period that followed the fall of Rome — characterized by the rise of spirituality and the decline of formal science —was known as the Middle Ages. Near the end of the Middle Ages, a group of Europeans like Galileo and Petrarch began to reject the premise that everything can simply be explained by the scripture alone, and this ultimately sparked a rebirth in scientific exploration.

The Birth of Quantitative Research

It will be this rebirth (Renaissance) that brought about what many refer to today as quantitative research. In quantitative research, the aim is to find truth not by looking towards God or the gods, but by analyzing the world and using reason. One of the major aims of quantitative research became to eliminate human fallacy from the truth of the environment by disassociating the human animal from his or her own research.