Why Did the Researchers in the New Hope Antipoverty Program

Multiple Choice

Why did the researchers in the New Hope Antipoverty program decide to implement qualitative methodology?

A) They did not understand the quantitative data that they were gathering.
B) They found a great deal of variability in the way people in the program made choices.
C) The researchers were anthropologists and had been trained to use qualitative field methods.
D) Qualitative methods were the only kinds of data-gathering that the local people would allow.
E) Use of qualitative methodology was required by the grant agencies involved in this program.