Psychology's Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lamiell, James T. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
• Θέματα: Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Statistics .; Psychology.; Statistics.; Psychometrics.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; History of Psychology.; Popular Science in Statistics.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Mainstream Psychology's Worrisome Incorrigibility
• Chapter 2: Challenging the Canon: The Critique and its Aftermath in Autobiographical Perspective
• Chapter 3: The Entrenchment of Statistical Thinking in Early Twentieth Century
• Differential Psychology
• Chapter 4: The Failure of Critical Thinking in the Statistization of Experimental Psychology
• Chapter 5: Statistical Thinking in Psychology: Some Needed Critical Perspective on What 'Everyone Knows'
• Chapter 6: 'Statisticism' in Psychology as a Socio-Ethical Problem
• Chapter 7: In Quest of Meaningful Change.