Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Bachman (1992) used an exploratory sequential design when she studied the social causes of rape, and then proceeded with a quantitative method for confirmatory purposes.
2. Testa, Livingston, and VanZile-Tamsen (2011) supplemented their quantitative study of violence against women with a qualitative component because violence against women is a complex phenomenon.
3. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods can strengthen design by enhancing generalizability.
4. True experimental designs are strongest for testing nomothetic causal hypotheses.
5. Qualitative methods tend to be preferred when exploratory research questions are posed.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True

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