When all directional expectations for the intermediate QCA solution are “dont’ care”s, there is no added value in running the intermediate solution

When reading an empirical QCA article 1, I noticed this specification for the derivation of the intermediate solution: “For the intermediate solution, both the presence or the absence of conditions were considered to contribute to the outcome, since there is no theoretical reason for assuming that the presence or absence of a particular condition could induce higher innovation outputs.” If there is no compelling theoretical reason to expect that the presence or absence of a condition is sufficient for the outcome, then this is the right approach. However, it also means that the conservative solution is not simplified one bit, meaning that the intermediate solution is identical to the conservative solution. A simple setup with synthetic data illustrates that the conservative and intermediate solutions are identical. First, a truth table including logical remainders is constructed, so that the three solution types can be derived. library(QCA) Dusa, Adrian (2019). QCA with R. A…

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