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Cookie akzeptierenJames T. Lamiell
Psychology¿s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics
- Springer International Publishing
- 2019
- Gebunden
- 204 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030121303
This book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute scientific knowledge of individuals. It investigates the essential nature and historical roots of this interpretive practice, and documents the lack of change in mainstream thinking despite previous critiques of the practice. The author contends that prevailing interpretive traditions result in bad science, in that invalid claims are made to knowledge of individuals. He also discusses the socio- ethical problems resulting from this misinterpretation of statistics, where psychological practitioners unjustifiably endorse interventions in the lives of individuals. Lamiell urges psychologists to
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