Throughout their research on violence against women, Testa et al. (2011) present many interesting and unique findings, owing in large part to their methodological approach. The authors note “Eventually, we began to see that what we originally thought were errors or noise was actually something much more interesting, suggesting individual differences in interpretations of SES items.” (p. 242) What strength of mixed methods is best represented?
a. causal validity explained
b. improved external validity
c. failure of alternative measures to triangulate
d. generalizability
e. measurement validity
