Abstract
In a recent paper we (Speelman and McGann) 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 behavior. The paper highlighted a tension between a science in search of general laws on the one hand, and the individual, variable, and diverse nature of human behavior on the other.
Keywords
mean, average, variability, inference, groups, individuals
Document Type
Editorial
Date of Publication
8-2016
Publisher
Frontiers Research Foundation
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
23029
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Speelman, C. P., & McGann, M. (2016). Editorial: Challenges to Mean-Based Analysis in Psychology: The Contrast Between Individual People and General Science. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01234