What's Wrong With Psychology Anyway?
University of Minnesota Press eBooksPublished 25 January 2010Open access
David T. Lykken
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Abstract
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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