Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion A and the other as Reason R. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Assertion A is correct because quantitative research is indeed guided by positivistic epistemology and objective measurement.

Reason R is not correct as the word only wrongly limits quantitative aims to hypothesis testing alone.

Quantitative work also describes, predicts and examines relationships among variables.

Positivism treats social facts as measurable regularities open to numerical study.

Hypothesis testing is one goal among several, not the sole purpose.

Auguste Comte coined positivism in the nineteenth century as a science based worldview.