Exercise 1: Matching Method to Sub-Question — Possible Solution ================================================================== The two sub-questions genuinely ask for different kinds of evidence, even though they're both about the same underlying feature. "WHAT PERCENTAGE of our users are unhappy" is a quantitative question. It asks for a measurable proportion across a defined population, which requires a structured instrument (e.g. a survey with a rating scale) applied to a large enough sample that the resulting percentage is genuinely representative. A handful of in-depth interviews couldn't answer this reliably - a small qualitative sample has no claim to represent the full user base's own overall proportion. "WHY the unhappy users feel that way" is a qualitative question. A percentage alone can't explain the reasoning, emotions, or specific frustrations behind a negative rating - that requires open-ended methods (interviews, open-text survey responses, focus groups) that let unhappy users explain their own experience in their own words, which a closed-ended numeric scale can't capture. Together, this is a natural mixed-methods situation: the quantitative survey establishes the real scale of the problem (how many people, how serious), while qualitative follow-up (even a smaller number of in-depth interviews with unhappy users specifically) explains the mechanism behind it - directly mirroring the chapter's own description of how mixed methods combines the two. ANSWER: "What percentage" is a quantitative question, best answered by a structured survey applied to a large, representative sample. "Why they feel that way" is a qualitative question, best answered by open-ended interviews or free-text responses that let users explain their own reasoning. Using both together - quantitative to measure scale, qualitative to explain cause - matches the chapter's own description of a genuine mixed-methods approach. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This matches each sub-question to the correct method type using the chapter's own stated distinction, and explains specifically why the other method type couldn't answer that particular sub-question.