quantoid

quantoid

English

Noun

quantoid (plural quantoids)

1. (derogatory) An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
   • 2001, John Gerring, Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (page 2)

     […] quantoids and qualitoids have developed different languages and different approaches to their topics. They are accustomed to arguing with each other or ignoring each other.

   • 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, ‎Carlos Aguirre Rojas, ‎Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

     The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.

2. (mathematics, obsolete) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1875, Philosophical Magazine (page 440)

     It indicates a certain relation between two differential equations, quantoids, or quotoids, whereof one is a transformation of the other by change of the independent variable.