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