Which of the Following Is a Disadvantage of Case Studies

question 98

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a disadvantage of case studies?

• A) Case studies produce a less detailed picture of an individual than other methods.
• B) Case studies have only limited usefulness for deriving general principles of behavior.
• C) Data from case studies is more abstract, vague, and general than data from other methods.
• D) The amount of control used in case studies makes them very artificial.

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Definitions:

Parameter

A numeric characteristic that describes and summarizes an entire population of data.

Statistic

A characteristic or measure obtained from a sample of data, used to estimate the value of a population parameter.

Variance

A measure of how spread out a set of data is, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Variance

A statistical measure that tells us how dispersed or spread out the values in a dataset are around the mean.