What’s on the Claiming a Cause poster
A 6-row table: Test · The question.
Each row is a question the claim must survive.
- Association — Do they actually move together, and how strongly?
- Time order — Did the cause come first, or is that assumed?
- Non-spuriousness — What third factor could produce both?
- Mechanism — By what process would one produce the other?
- Counterfactual — What would have happened without it?
- Selection — Who chose into this group, and why?
Educational reference. Selection is the standard problem in sociology: people are rarely assigned to families, schools or neighbourhoods.
Questions about the Claiming a Cause poster
- What’s on the Claiming a Cause poster?
- A 6-row table: Test · The question. Each row is a question the claim must survive. Association — Do they actually move together, and how strongly?; Time order — Did the cause come first, or is that assumed?; Non-spuriousness — What third factor could produce both?; Mechanism — By what process would one produce the other?; Counterfactual — What would have happened without it?; Selection — Who chose into this group, and why?. Educational reference. Selection is the standard problem in sociology: people are rarely assigned to families, schools or neighbourhoods.
- Who is the Claiming a Cause poster for?
- Claiming a Cause belongs to the Sociology 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 Claiming a Cause poster?
- Before writing that one social variable produces another. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Claiming a Cause belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Claiming a Cause?
- Coding Qualitative Data, Ethnography and Reading Official Statistics sit alongside Claiming a Cause in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Coding Qualitative DataEthnographyReading Official Statistics
- Is the Claiming a Cause poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Claiming a Cause downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology 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 Claiming a Cause poster print at?
- Claiming a Cause 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 Claiming a Cause loses nothing.Printing guide
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