What’s on the What Counts As Evidence poster
A 6-row table: Design · Answers · Weakness.
Strength rises down the table, and so does cost.
- Case study — What happened here — No comparison
- Correlational — What goes together — Not causal
- Quasi-experiment — Probably caused — Group differences
- RCT — Caused, on average — Narrow, costly
- Meta-analysis — Across studies — Mixed inputs
- Replication — Does it hold — Rarely funded
Educational reference. Many well-known findings have shrunk or failed on replication. Prefer effects that survived a pre-registered repeat.
Questions about the What Counts As Evidence poster
- What’s on the What Counts As Evidence poster?
- A 6-row table: Design · Answers · Weakness. Strength rises down the table, and so does cost. Case study — What happened here — No comparison; Correlational — What goes together — Not causal; Quasi-experiment — Probably caused — Group differences; RCT — Caused, on average — Narrow, costly; Meta-analysis — Across studies — Mixed inputs; Replication — Does it hold — Rarely funded. Educational reference. Many well-known findings have shrunk or failed on replication. Prefer effects that survived a pre-registered repeat.
- Who is the What Counts As Evidence poster for?
- What Counts As Evidence belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & systems can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the What Counts As Evidence poster?
- Use it when a claim arrives already dressed as research. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Counts As Evidence belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Counts As Evidence?
- Reading An Effect Size, Accountability and Class Size sit alongside What Counts As Evidence in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Reading An Effect SizeAccountabilityClass Size
- Is the What Counts As Evidence poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Counts As Evidence downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Counts As Evidence poster print at?
- What Counts As Evidence is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Counts As Evidence loses nothing.Printing guide
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