Psychology · Research Methods & the Replication Crisis
A topic within Research Methods & the Replication Crisis, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Jacob Cohen
Argues null-hypothesis significance testing does not tell researchers what they think it does - it cannot say how probable a hypothesis is - and that psychology's near-total reliance on it has done the field lasting damage.
Notes on this copyPaul E. Meehl
Argues that null-hypothesis significance testing lets weak, vague theories in 'soft' areas of psychology look like they are accumulating support decade after decade, because almost any predicted direction of effect is enough to count as confirmation.
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