LEADER 04498nam 22006375 450 001 9910337661803321 005 20230224132920.0 010 $a3-030-12131-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-12131-0 035 $a(CKB)4930000000042133 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5741972 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-12131-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994930000000042133 100 $a20190327d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPsychology?s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics$b[electronic resource] /$fby James T. Lamiell 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (179 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,$x2946-2460 311 $a3-030-12130-5 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Mainstream Psychology?s Worrisome Incorrigibility -- Chapter 2: Challenging the Canon: The Critique and its Aftermath in Autobiographical Perspective -- Chapter 3: The Entrenchment of Statistical Thinking in Early Twentieth Century -- Differential Psychology -- Chapter 4: The Failure of Critical Thinking in the Statistization of Experimental Psychology -- Chapter 5: Statistical Thinking in Psychology: Some Needed Critical Perspective on What ?Everyone Knows? -- Chapter 6: ?Statisticism? in Psychology as a Socio-Ethical Problem -- Chapter 7: In Quest of Meaningful Change. 330 $aThis book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute scientific knowledge of individuals. It investigates the essential nature and historical roots of this interpretive practice, and documents the lack of change in mainstream thinking despite previous critiques of the practice. The author contends that prevailing interpretive traditions result in bad science, in that invalid claims are made to knowledge of individuals. He also discusses the socio-ethical problems resulting from this misinterpretation of statistics, where psychological practitioners unjustifiably endorse interventions in the lives of individuals. Lamiell urges psychologists to abandon the aggregate statistical methods which he argues have transformed the field into ?psycho-demography,? and to embrace instead alternative research methods that are logically suited to gaining scientific knowledge about the psychological functioning of individuals. This book concludes by highlighting some of the currently available methodological alternatives, as well as discussing some enduring conceptual impediments to the serious consideration of those alternatives. James T. Lamiell is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown University, USA after having spent thirty-six years on the faculty at that institution. He holds the 2001 Bunn Award for Faculty Excellence at Georgetown, and is a three-time Fulbright scholar to Germany. He has authored four books and translated a fifth. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,$x2946-2460 606 $aPsychology?Methodology 606 $aSocial sciences?Statistical methods 606 $aPsychology 606 $aSocial sciences?History 606 $aStatistics 606 $aPsychometrics 606 $aPsychological Methods 606 $aStatistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy 606 $aHistory of Psychology 606 $aStatistics 606 $aPsychometrics 615 0$aPsychology?Methodology. 615 0$aSocial sciences?Statistical methods. 615 0$aPsychology. 615 0$aSocial sciences?History. 615 0$aStatistics. 615 0$aPsychometrics. 615 14$aPsychological Methods. 615 24$aStatistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy. 615 24$aHistory of Psychology. 615 24$aStatistics. 615 24$aPsychometrics. 676 $a150.727 700 $aLamiell$b James T$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0853103 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337661803321 996 $aPsychology?s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics$92473495 997 $aUNINA