Black Ravens, White Shoes, and Case Selection
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How should qualitative researchers select cases? This is an important question, which has been widely canvassed. Mahoney and Goertz (2004) offer some principles to govern case selection, illustrating the argument by Hempel’s raven paradox. In this paper, I suggest resolving the paradox by distinguishing between samples and populations. I also suggest that the Mahoney-Goertz rules have limited scope.
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