尽管在潜在结果框架中大部分重点仍然放在统计推论上,但社会科学方法学家已经开发出使用定性和定量方法进行因果推断的新工具,有时被称为''混合方法''。<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Designing_and_Conducting_Mixed_Methods_R.html?id=YcdlPWPJRBcC|title=Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research|last=Creswell|first=John W.|last2=Clark|first2=Vicki L. Plano|date=2011|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9781412975179|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/multimethod-social-science/286C2742878FBCC6225E2F10D6095A0C|title=Multi-Method Social Science by Jason Seawright|last=Seawright|first=Jason|date=September 2016|website=Cambridge Core|language=en|access-date=2019-04-18|doi=10.1017/CBO9781316160831|isbn=9781316160831}}</ref>各种方法论的支持者认为它更适合'''<font color = '#32CD32'>不同对象的研究 different subjects of study</font>'''。 | 尽管在潜在结果框架中大部分重点仍然放在统计推论上,但社会科学方法学家已经开发出使用定性和定量方法进行因果推断的新工具,有时被称为''混合方法''。<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Designing_and_Conducting_Mixed_Methods_R.html?id=YcdlPWPJRBcC|title=Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research|last=Creswell|first=John W.|last2=Clark|first2=Vicki L. Plano|date=2011|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9781412975179|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/multimethod-social-science/286C2742878FBCC6225E2F10D6095A0C|title=Multi-Method Social Science by Jason Seawright|last=Seawright|first=Jason|date=September 2016|website=Cambridge Core|language=en|access-date=2019-04-18|doi=10.1017/CBO9781316160831|isbn=9781316160831}}</ref>各种方法论的支持者认为它更适合'''<font color = '#32CD32'>不同对象的研究 different subjects of study</font>'''。 |