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Qualitative and quantitative career assessment are based on differing philosophies of science, with qualitative assessment based on postmodern assumptions and quantitative assessment based on modern assumptions. Taken literally, the philosophical assumptions of both approaches are incompatible; if career practitioners accept the assumptions of one, they must reject the assumptions of the other.
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Sampson, J.P., Peterson, G.W., Osborn, D.S., Hayden, S.C.W. (2015). Using Career Theory to Integrate Qualitative and Quantitative Career Assessment. In: McMahon, M., Watson, M. (eds) Career Assessment. Career Development Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-034-5_21
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