Overview
- Challenges a deep, abiding and problematic concept in mainstream psychological statistics
- Offers an assertive critique of the statistically-based knowledge claims that pervade psychological research
- Explains why the few and isolated attempts made to refute this argument have not been sufficient
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology (PSTHP)
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Keywords
- statistically-based knowledge claims
- knowledge claims
- psychological statistics
- scientific psychology
- critiques of statistically-based knowledge
- 20th century personality psychology
- psychological statistical findings
- statistical methods in psychology research
- socio-ethics
- ethics
- variation studies
- Psycho-demography
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychology’s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics
Authors: James T. Lamiell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12131-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12130-3Published: 04 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12133-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12131-0Published: 27 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 179
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, History of Psychology, Popular Science in Statistics, Psychometrics