RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION
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They provide too much detail and the researcher is likely to lose track of the most important facts.
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They are generally too expensive to economical
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They may be misleading because they don’t fairly represent other cases
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The dependent variable is difficult to operationally define in a case study
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Detailed explanation-1: -Since case studies only focus on a fewer population, they cannot be generalized to a larger group of people. They would have misleading information because they do not represent the group in a fair manner.
Detailed explanation-2: -Limitations of Case Studies Lacking scientific rigour and providing little basis for generalization of results to the wider population. Researchers’ own subjective feeling may influence the case study (researcher bias). Difficult to replicate. Time-consuming and expensive.
Detailed explanation-3: -One major limitation of case studies is that it is often difficult to generalize findings from the individual studied to other individuals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The purpose of a case study is to learn as much as possible about an individual or group so that the information can be generalized to many others. Unfortunately, case studies tend to be highly subjective, and it is sometimes difficult to generalize results to a larger population.
Detailed explanation-5: -A common criticism of case study method is its dependency on a single case exploration making it difficult to reach a generalising conclusion (Tellis, 1997). Yin (1993) considered case methodology ‘microscopic’ because of the limited sampling cases.