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

• Auteur principal: Marek McGann (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Craig P. Speelman (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Collection: Frontiers Research Topics
• Sujets: Psychology; inference; mean; Average; groups; Individuals; variability
• Accès en ligne: 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...