PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Type I And Type Ii Errors, Structural Equation Modeling, Egon Brunswik
17 Oct 2012
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Psychology"s emphasis on method research aimed at these questions rather than settle anything once and for all. Psychologists do not often seem to provide firm answers, they often offer methods for generating. For a researcher the goal is to improve on the tentative answers (hypotheses) constantly being developed, Psychologist"s are sensitive and sometimes even self-conscious about research methodology, about the way they use statistics, and even about the basic procedures they use to draw a theoretical inferences from empirical data. One might even say that psychologists suffer from physics envy . Some people think that psychology is not really scientific because it has so few hard facts, and even the knowledge it has gathered seems always open to question. However, real science is the seeking of new knowledge, not the cataloguing of facts already known for certain. Technical training conveys what is already known about a subject, so that knowledge can be applied.
