What are the strengths and weaknesses of case studies?

Answer 1

A weakness is that you think the case study is easy. It is not. If your arguments do not go in court it is a weakness.

Obtaining information can be difficult as parties might tend to be secretive

Answer 2

The strength of a case study is that it can give incredibly detailed information about the person being studied since the study lasts over a period of several years in many cases. The problems of case studies is that often the person being studied has a rare disorder so the results found cannot always be used to help the population as a whole. Another issue is that the case study is usually done by the same person the entire time so their is only one viewpoint to the study, which can lead to biased reports.