I tried to read as much as I could on this subject but had to compress it down to a single paragraph for the purposes of the essay, which I wanted to be primarily descriptive and evocative rather than analytic and discursive.
Due to the observational design, primarily descriptive statistics were used: means, standard deviations, and frequencies.
In his own terms, his investigations concerning language were primarily descriptive rather than genetic.
Legislation, rules and regulations are primarily descriptive and oftentimes too static to keep up with current developments.
This means that psychology can be a foundational human science only if it is conceived as being primarily descriptive.
Reported results were primarily descriptive rather than explanatory, and there was a marked lack of consistency in reporting standards and methods.
Berelson (1952) characterises content analysis as primarily descriptive, in which content is described, organised and summarised, and this was the method employed for this research.
In a distinct but still primarily descriptive sense, it means the disadvantageous (or, less commonly, the advantageous) treatment of some persons relative to others.
Studies of monocyte/macrophage involvement in patients with these diseases tend to be primarily descriptive, examining the macrophages present in samples from patients with the disease compared to normal controls.
Due to the small sample of the participating examination boards, we didn't intend to generalize the findings we identified in this study, and the report of our study was primarily descriptive.
In the past most cultural studies have been primarily descriptive, cataloguing and organising objects often to be displayed in museums or at least organised in drawers so that interested people can examine them.
