Quantitative research design can contribute to theory by noting connections or lack thereof between variables. The purpose of quantitative design is to prove or disprove a hypothesis. These projects address cause and effect relationships, produce numerical data, and detect correlational relationships within the collected data. In general, quantitative research is designed to test a theory. For a long time, the scientific community has considered quantitative research to be the only “true” scientific method, suggesting that quantitative research design be used to verify