The sampling precision of research in five major areas of psychology
| Autor: | Hunter A. Myüz, David Trafimow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences
Sampling (statistics) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental research Sample (statistics) Cognition Models Psychological 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive research Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology Social Behavior 030217 neurology & neurosurgery General Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behavior research methods. 51(5) |
| ISSN: | 1554-3528 |
| Popis: | After obtaining a sample of published, peer-reviewed articles from journals with high and low impact factors in social, cognitive, neuro-, developmental, and clinical psychology, we used a priori equations recently derived by Trafimow (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 77, 831–854, 2017; Trafimow & MacDonald in Educational and Psychological Measurement, 77, 204–219, 2017) to compute the articles’ median levels of precision. Our findings indicate that developmental research performs best with respect to precision, whereas cognitive research performs the worst; however, none of the psychology subfields excelled. In addition, we found important differences in precision between journals in the upper versus lower echelons with respect to impact factors in cognitive, neuro-, and clinical psychology, whereas the difference was dramatically attenuated for social and developmental psychology. Implications are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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