{"id":504,"date":"2026-04-29T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:12:26","slug":"exploration-9-mixed-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/2026\/04\/29\/exploration-9-mixed-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration 9: Mixed Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While&nbsp;working with&nbsp;combining&nbsp;quantitative and qualitative&nbsp;findings,&nbsp;it can be hard often&nbsp;because&nbsp;they both speak different languages.&nbsp;Trying to find a way to use them at the same time is important because&nbsp;it can be interpretive&nbsp;to try&nbsp;to get the two together to tell a story in a way.&nbsp;Trying to bring the two&nbsp;together,&nbsp;you do not want the&nbsp;qualitative&nbsp;findings&nbsp;to&nbsp;overpower&nbsp;the&nbsp;quantitative findings&nbsp;when&nbsp;using them together in work.&nbsp;It is also&nbsp;hard just having to find the perfect balance between&nbsp;the two findings with either making sure&nbsp;they are both&nbsp;being talked about at the same level.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making me look at the problem from multiple angles&nbsp;can help with shifting one\u2019s mind into thinking&nbsp;in&nbsp;more&nbsp;of a&nbsp;bigger&nbsp;way.&nbsp;Making sure you check the work is also important because&nbsp;a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;work&nbsp;does&nbsp;not need&nbsp;both&nbsp;findings&nbsp;to be used together.&nbsp;Being able to look at the&nbsp;problem differently pushes people away from their views&nbsp;on one issue to being able to see multiple issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;would make&nbsp;sure I double check&nbsp;all&nbsp;my work before&nbsp;submitting&nbsp;the work and even ask for help&nbsp;when&nbsp;I do not understand the work.&nbsp;Even when it comes to making sure someone&nbsp;proofreads&nbsp;my work as&nbsp;well,&nbsp;I could have done that too to see if I&nbsp;was&nbsp;using the findings right and&nbsp;adding it correctly to my assignment.&nbsp;Making sure that I&nbsp;am putting the findings and using them in real life&nbsp;scenarios.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While&nbsp;working with&nbsp;combining&nbsp;quantitative and qualitative&nbsp;findings,&nbsp;it can be hard often&nbsp;because&nbsp;they both speak different languages.&nbsp;Trying to find a way to use them at the same time is important because&nbsp;it can be interpretive&nbsp;to try&nbsp;to get the two together to tell a story in a way.&nbsp;Trying to bring the two&nbsp;together,&nbsp;you do not want the&nbsp;qualitative&nbsp;findings&nbsp;to&nbsp;overpower&nbsp;the&nbsp;quantitative findings&nbsp;when&nbsp;using them together in work.&nbsp;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/kai-denham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}