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A refrigerator mother was a term used by the medical profession to describe autistic children’s’ mothers as back in the 50’s, mothers were routinely blamed for their children’s’ behavior habits, including self-isolation, speech difficulties and rigid type rituals. It was used as an assumptive label, but in the 70’s many mothers of autistic children rose up to stop the blaming situation, though even today some mental health workers still adhere to the old ideals, blaming mothers as being emotionally frigid themselves. This was due in part to the belief by the medical community that autism was caused by poor parenting and sadly it is still an assumption made today.

Qualitative data describes information by its quality versus its value. In the case of research, it is of less value to the scientific community or economic community than quantitative data because it is intangible and subjective. However, quantitative data can be approximated from qualitative data whereby a rating system is used to evaluate the information supplied. For example, quantitative data would measure a room’s temperature, but qualitative data would report that room temperature in a verbally descriptive or comparative fashion – warm or warmer than inside. It also can be used in economics to describe many products, services and rates in varied markets, especially with pricing, values, quantity and demand.