Distance Matters more than You Think! An Artifact Clouds Interpretation of Latane, Liu, Nowak, Bonevento, and Zheng’s Results
| Autor: | Eric S. Knowles |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Discrete mathematics
Artifact (archaeology) Social Psychology 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Function (mathematics) Measure (mathematics) 050105 experimental psychology Interpretation (model theory) Geographical distance Decay function 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 25:1045-1048 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7433 0146-1672 |
| Popis: | Latane, Liu, Nowak, Bonevento, and Zheng reported three surveys that led them to conclude that the number of memorable interactions decreases as a function of geographical distance raised to the first power. Although interactions certainly decayed with distance, the particular decay function that they report appears to be an artifact of their memorable-interactions-per-mile measure. In effect, they took remembered interactions, divided them by distance, and then plotted them against distance. The fact that the inverse of distance plotted against distance has a slope of -1.00 when plotted in logarithms is tautological, not psychological. Of course distance matters, but we need to look elsewhere to find out precisely how. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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