Between Numbers and Notions : A Critique of Psychological Measurement  

Oleh:

Essex, Christopher ; Smythe, William E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 9 no. 6 (Des. 1999), page 739–768.
Topik: PSYCHOLOGICAL; measurement; methodology; metric; operationism; positivism; quantification; rank order; theory; numbers; notions; critique; psychological measurement
Fulltext: 739TP96.pdf (210.27KB)

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When psychologists apply mathematical machinery to psychological ideas, that machinery imposes certain requirements in the linkage of numbers and notions. These impose choices driven by the mathematics and not the psychology. These decisions, forced by the mathematics, induce theoretical issues in the psychology. Attempting a theory - neutral approach to research in psychology, where commitments in response to the options are made unknowingly, thus becomes instead a theory by default psychology. This paper begins to catalogue some of these mathematical choices to make them explicit, in order to allow psychologists the opportunity to make explicit theoretical commitments.

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