What's Wrong With Psychology Anyway?
Что же не так с психологией?
2010-01-25
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This chapter considers various factors that have been responsible for the comparatively slow development of psychology into a cumulative empirical science. Special attention is devoted to correctable methodological mistakes, the over-reliance upon significance testing (and the fact that, in psychology, the null hypothesis is almost always false), and an analysis of the concept of replication.
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Correctable methodological mistakes have substantially hindered progress in psychological research.
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Psychology’s development as a cumulative empirical science has been comparatively slow because of multiple contributing factors.
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Psychology’s over-reliance on significance testing is problematic because its null hypotheses are almost always false.
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Replication is identified as a central concept requiring careful analysis within psychological science.
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psychology as an empirical science
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factors hindering psychology’s development into a cumulative empirical science, especially methodological mistakes, over-reliance on significance testing, and replication
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