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(A) It is inherently superior to mono-strategy research
(B) It must be competently designed and conducted
(C) It must be appropriate to the research questions
(D) The skills of all researchers must be well integrated

(A) When the researcher abandons their original strategy and starts all over again
(B) When the second research strategy is used to explain unexpected or puzzling results
(C) When there is a paradigm shift from quantitative to qualitative research
(D) When it is ethically unsound to use only one research strategy

(A) By reducing the standard deviation of scores around the mean
(B) By allowing the researcher to interview first women, and then men
(C) By revealing both the macro and the micro level
(D) By making it unnecessary to have more than one stage in the research process

(A) By identifying a sample of respondents for a follow-up study
(B) By providing hard, statistical data about them
(C) By making the research more value-laden and subjective
(D) By helping to explain the relationship between two variables

(A) Symmetrical
(B) Statistical
(C) Processual
(D) Proverbial

(A) By identifying specific groups of people to be interviewed
(B) By showing the frequency of different responses to a survey item
(C) By imposing a rigorous positivist framework on it
(D) By combining laboratory experiments with structured observation

(A) By providing hypotheses that can later be tested
(B) By helping with the design of survey questions
(C) By informing the schedule of a structured interview
(D) All of the above

(A) Using three quantitative or three qualitative methods in a project
(B) Cross-checking the results found by different research strategies
(C) Allowing theoretical concepts to emerge from the data
(D) Drawing a triangular diagram to represent the relations between three concepts