For Whom the Bell Curve Toils: Universality in Individual Differences Research
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Abstract
Modern philosophy of science maintains that it is essential, in any science, to routinely examine and critique meta-theoretical issues, which tend to be presumed settled and go unquestioned. Lamiell should be commended for undertaking such a critique in the field of personality psychology, as well as for offering an alternative methodology. His attempt to "negate all claims concerning the generality across persons of any 'general laws' that individual differences research might one day yield" is an ambitious endeavor, and it is very clearly formulated. Unfortunately, in our opinions it is, to paraphrase Lamiell's own wording, predicated on mistakes.