Challenges to Mean-Based Analysis in Psychology: The Contrast Between Individual People and General Science

• मुख्य लेखक: Marek McGann (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Craig P. Speelman (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Psychology; inference; mean; Average; groups; Individuals; variability
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In a recent paper we (Speelman & McGann, 2013) argued that psychology's reliance on data analysis methods that are based on group averages has resulted in a science of group phenomena that may be misleading about the nature of and reasons for individual behaviour. The paper highlighted a te...