Comment on “Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology” |
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Authors: | William M. Grove |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, N218 Elliot Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0344, USA |
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Abstract: | A serious problem with Popperian falsificationism in the presence of auxiliary hypotheses and experimental conditions, in addition to a theory under test, is raised by Meehl. In brief, a negative result endangers both the theory in question, and the auxiliary hypotheses; which should we reject? I discuss how considering series of studies, rather than a single study, helps make this problem somewhat more tractable. I treat situations where negative results are in hand, as well as situations where positive results may be discounted by skeptics who question auxiliary hypotheses. |
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Keywords: | Soft psychology Risky tests Significance tests |
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