PSYCH291 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Meta-Analysis, Descriptive Statistics, Bias Blind Spot
16 Dec 2016
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Authority no comparison group has confounds biased by faulty thinking biased by motivation could be based on the authority"s research could be the authority"s personal experience could be the authority"s intuition. Scientific sources (by psychologists, for psychologists) journal articles empirical articles review articles chapters in edited books full-length books. Other sources (by psychologists, journalists, or laypeople for a popular audience) trade books (look for reference) magazines and newspaper articles (look for research) wikis (think critically) vs. Dr. benjamin rush and bleeding a disease cure. Some people got better after procedure, some did not. Bled vs. not bled showed that there were no difference. Experience is confounded (independent variable, confounding variable => outcome) with many other life events. We sometimes don"t remember all the possible confounds. Laptop example: is it typing that is really causing poor retention light cognitive styles. Experience are rarely isolated (unless in a lab) perfect experimental control. Major problem is that intuition is biased in two ways:
