Surrogates for theories (1998)
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Abstract
I first discuss several strategies that serve as surrogates for theories in psychology: one-word ex- planation, redescription, drawing vague dichotomies, and data fitting. I then identify two conventions that allow these surrogates to flourish and multiply: null hypothesis testing, which makes precise hypotheses irrelevant, and the isolation of research in different disciplines, which prevents the exchange of positive metaphors between fields
Bibliographic entry
Gigerenzer, G. (1998). Surrogates for theories. Theory & Psychology, 8, 195-204. (Full text)
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| Publication year | 1998 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Surrogates_1998.pdf View | |
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