Case Study Part 2

• One key aspect to the case study is picking the case. Case Selection
• Information-oriented sampling as opposed to random sampling.
• Extreme, critical or paradigmatic cases.
• You can generalize from case studies
• From a single study you can show things like all swans are not white.
• Also Galileo used a conceptual experiment followed by a single case study (dropping coins from the leaning tower of Pisa), to overturn Aristotle's theory of gravity.