Quantitative research can be characterised as exhibiting certain preoccupations the most central of which are: Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Quantitative research is preoccupied with measurement, causality, generalisation and replication together.

Naming only generalisation and measurement drops the equally central concerns of causality and replication.

Naming only causality and replication omits measurement and generalisation.

The three-part option leaves out one of the four defining preoccupations without warrant.

All four concerns jointly express the positivist ambition of quantitative inquiry.

Bryman identifies these four as the central preoccupations of quantitative research.