29 Of Qualitative and Quantitative

Coordination dynamics (CD) provides a novel and lucid way to comprehend how qualitative and quantitative phenomena and thinking are related. Hopefully, your squiggle sense can already attempt to reconcile them as complementary aspects. It’s common though, even in the sciences, to treat them as mutually exclusive polarized styles that have led to clichés like “it's quality rather than quantity that matters…” and “qualitative is just poor quantitative…” Although it’s likely you may prefer and identify more with one or the other of these outlooks in general, you actually switch back and forth many, many times a day between qualitative and quantitative modes of perceiving, thinking and doing. It changes—sometimes it's both, sometimes it's neither. It depends. Both these apparently contrary mindsets are actually necessary for you to accurately gauge and navigate qualitative and quantitative aspects of life.