@misc{cogprints371, editor = {D. Chiccetti and W. Grove}, title = {What's wrong with Psychology, anyway?}, author = {David T. Lykken}, publisher = {University of Minnesota Press}, year = {1991}, pages = {3--39}, journal = {Thinking Clearly About Psychology, Vol. 1}, keywords = {Philosophy of Psychology, significance testing, types ofreplication, null hypothesis}, url = {http://cogprints.org/371/}, abstract = {This chapter considers various factors that have been responsible for the comparatively slow development of psychology into a cumulative empirical science. Special attention is devoted to correctable methodological mistakes, the over-reliance upon significance testing (and the fact that, in psychology, the null hypothesis is almost always false), and an analysis of the concept of replication.} }