Practice question · Multiple choice
A team wants to know how common burnout is among nurses AND what it feels like from the inside. Why is running a survey and an interview study better here than choosing the stronger single method?
Hints
- Write out the two questions separately. What kind of answer would satisfy each?
- Could an interview study tell you that 43% of nurses are affected? Could a survey tell you what the exhaustion is like?
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A. Because the two questions require different kinds of answer.
Why
'How common is it?' demands a number from a representative sample; 'what is it like?' demands the participant's own categories, and a five-point scale cannot supply them however many people fill it in. Mixed methods is not a compromise between a strong tool and a weak one, the research question was two questions.
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