Questions about the Selecting Cases poster

What’s on the Selecting Cases poster?

8 entries in 2 groups. The error and its remedies. The error: Studying only successful revolutions, Only democracies that consolidated,…; Remedies: Include cases without the outcome, Sample on the explanatory variable inste…. Educational reference. Without the negative cases you cannot tell whether the supposed cause is also present where the outcome is absent.

Who is the Selecting Cases poster for?

Selecting Cases 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 Selecting Cases poster?

Choosing cases by their outcome guarantees you will find the pattern you expected. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Selecting Cases belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Selecting Cases?

Reading a Study Critically, Asking a Researchable Question and Case Studies sit alongside Selecting Cases 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.Reading a Study CriticallyAsking a Researchable QuestionCase Studies

Is the Selecting Cases poster free to download and print?

Yes. Selecting Cases 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 Selecting Cases poster print at?

Selecting Cases 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 Selecting Cases loses nothing.Printing guide