Reading a Study CriticallyAssessing a political science claim before accepting it.Political ScienceQuestions to ask.Design questionsWhat is the comparison being madeHow were cases or respondents selectedHow were key concepts measuredWhat alternative explanations were testedOver what period and whereReporting flagsCausal language from correlational dataNo confidence intervals reportedSubgroup findings without pre-specificationOnly one specification presentedEducational reference. Ask what result would have been reported hadthe finding gone the other way. Often nothing would have been.Reading a Study Criticallylearnposters.com
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9 entries in 2 groups.

Questions to ask.

Educational reference. Ask what result would have been reported had the finding gone the other way. Often nothing would have been.

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What’s on the Reading a Study Critically poster?
9 entries in 2 groups. Questions to ask. Design questions: What is the comparison being made, How were cases or respondents se…; Reporting flags: Causal language from correlational data, No confidence intervals rep…. Educational reference. Ask what result would have been reported had the finding gone the other way. Often nothing would have been.
Who is the Reading a Study Critically poster for?
Reading a Study Critically belongs to the Political Science section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning research methods can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Reading a Study Critically poster?
Check the design before the finding. The design determines what the finding can mean. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Reading a Study Critically belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Reading a Study Critically?
Asking a Researchable Question, Selecting Cases and Case Studies sit alongside Reading a Study Critically in the Political Science section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Asking a Researchable QuestionSelecting CasesCase Studies
Is the Reading a Study Critically poster free to download and print?
Yes. Reading a Study Critically downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Political Science 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 Reading a Study Critically poster print at?
Reading a Study Critically 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 Reading a Study Critically loses nothing.Printing guide

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