Questions about the Evidence Standards poster

What’s on the Evidence Standards poster?

A 5-row table: Design · What it controls for · Confidence. Study design, and what each design can and cannot rule out. Randomised trial — Selection into treatment — Highest, if well delivered; Matched comparison — Observed differences only — Moderate; Before and after — Almost nothing else — Low on its own; Correlational — Little or nothing — Weak for causal claims; Systematic review — Pools across studies — Depends what it pools. Educational reference. The Maryland Scientific Methods Scale formalises this ranking and is widely used in crime policy reviews.

Who is the Evidence Standards poster for?

Evidence Standards belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & evidence can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Evidence Standards poster?

Use it to rank the evidence behind a claim before arguing about the claim. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Evidence Standards belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Evidence Standards?

Cost-Benefit in Justice Policy, Certainty Beats Severity and Measuring Disproportionality sit alongside Evidence Standards in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cost-Benefit in Justice PolicyCertainty Beats SeverityMeasuring Disproportionality

Is the Evidence Standards poster free to download and print?

Yes. Evidence Standards downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice 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 Evidence Standards poster print at?

Evidence Standards 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 Evidence Standards loses nothing.Printing guide