Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0055 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Case Studies
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The idea
A case study examines one person or a few people in great detail, often revealing insights that other methods cannot reach.
In practice
A neurologist's detailed account of one patient who could no longer recognise objects by sight.
Where people slip
The limit is generalisability: what holds for one case may apply only to that person. Case studies lean on inductive reasoning.
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