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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.'
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publication: 'Thinking Clearly About Psychology, Vol. 1'
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title: "What's wrong with Psychology, anyway?"
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