KINE 3000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1+: Absenteeism, Ageism, Wicket-Keeper
2 Sep 2016
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Assumptions in reach in s&e psychology hagger & chatzisarantis. Outline how certain key assumptions affect the quality and interpretation of research in quantitative s&e psychology. Review focusing on 3 common assumptions made in s&e psychology. Central theme: assumption that research observations reflect true effects in a population. 3 areas of assumption: validity, inferences of causality, and effect size and the practical significance of research findings. Research reports do not include effect size statistics as standard and confine the discussion of findings to statistical significance alone rather than commenting on practical significance. Limitation section is often overlooked, these limitations and assumptions that accompany them might affect the interpretation of findings. Often researchers rely on one form of validity when developing methods and deem that sufficient. Many social psychologists presuppose that previous validation efforts imply that they can forgo tests of validity.
