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    Type of resources
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    Education level(s)
    College / Upper Division (Undergraduates)
    Primary user(s)
    Student
    Subject area(s)
    Applied Science, Social Science
    Language(s)
    English
    Cluster
    Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge, Replication Crisis and Credibility Revolution
    Last updated
    9 June 2020
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    What's wrong with Psychology, anyway?

    By David T. Lykken

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates) · For Student · Language English

    Abstract

    This chapter considers various factors that have been responsible for the comparatively slow development of psychology into a cumulative empirical science. Special attention is devoted to correctable methodological mistakes, the over-reliance upon significance testing (and the fact that, in psychology, the null hypothesis is almost always false), and an analysis of the concept of replication.

    Keywords Reproducibility Crisis and Credibility Revolution · Transparency