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

• Main Author: Marek McGann (auth)
• Other Authors: Craig P. Speelman (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; inference; mean; Average; groups; Individuals; variability
• Online Access: 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...