Making It Count¶
Lieberson, S. (1985). Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory. University of California Press.
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- Comparative Method
- Lieberson's Making It Count (1985) emphasized the inferential limits: with three cases, only three hypotheses can be directly tested against the comparative variation; with ten cases, perhaps thirty; the underdetermination problem never fully dissolves and requires vigilant sensitivity analysis and mechanism-tracing to address.
This sourceSystematic analysis of small-N inferential limits in comparative method (the three-case problem; hypothesis underdetermination by observations) — supports the Manages-Complexity claim on inferential limits.
- Lieberson's Making It Count (1985) emphasized the inferential limits: with three cases, only three hypotheses can be directly tested against the comparative variation; with ten cases, perhaps thirty; the underdetermination problem never fully dissolves and requires vigilant sensitivity analysis and mechanism-tracing to address.
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