David Sohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4230610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sohn |
| SIGNATURE | SOHN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Significance testing and the science
Significance testing and the science
Experimental Effects
The psychological literature has little to say about the constancy of experimental effects, whether those effects are the same for all individuals or vary with the individual. Investigators rarely specify whether the effects noted in research findings apply to every individual or are an average of varying individual effects. Where it does address the matter at all, namely in experimental design texts, the literature gives conflicting messages. It…
Statistical Significance and Replicability
Commentators agree with me that statistical significance does not betoken replicability, but not for the reasons I give. Chow (1998) defends the use of significance tests by arguing that they are useful for assessing the role of chance in findings. I dispute this by pointing out that the Type II error rate may be as high as 1 - ct. Falk (1998) defends Bayesian inference, which was impugned by me. She also makes a case for the use of replications …
Statistical Significance and Replicability
In spite of arguments to the contrary, psychologists, it is shown here, believe statistical significance (SS) signifies that a finding will replicate. The most visible argument that SS is not an index of replicability, one that is based in notions of Bayesian statistical inference, is considered and shown to be flawed. Two different arguments are presented that demonstrate the irrelevance of SS to replicability: (a) SS may not be taken as a sign …
Questions for Meta-Analysis
In spite of an abundance of data, the empirical evidence as yet does not make clear whether meta-analysis will bring about progress in psychological science. Therefore, it is still useful and desirable to engage in rational analysis of the methodology. Such analysis is done in the present essay by posing five questions that go to the logical and conceptual foundation of meta-analysis. The questions are (a) What are the grounds for believing that …
Questions for Meta-Analysis
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Meta-Analysis and Science
Meta-analytic writers have argued that psychological science is not working and that the solution to the problem is meta-analysis (MA), quantitative summaries of the research literature. This paper assesses these claims by evaluating MA as a means of scientific discovery and by considering the nature of effective science. It is shown that MA should not be credited as a means of discovery because its database, the research literature, is an untrus…
Meta-analysis as a means of discovery
Meta-analysis as a means of discovery
Psychology of the Scientist
The fable of a group of idiot savants, who conduct methodologically flawless research to test senseless research hypotheses and are able to affirm some of them on the basis of the rejection of the null hypothesis, is used to dramatize the argument that the rejection of the null hypothesis, by itself, is not sufficient grounds for affirming the research hypothesis. Reasons and examples are given to argue that affirmation of a scientific hypothesis…
Note on Cooper's findings on initial task choice
On Eron on Television Violence and Aggression
On Eron on Television Violence and Aggression
Sex differences in achievement self-attributions
Television violence and aggression revisited
Television violence and aggression revisited
Critique of Cooper's meta-analytic assessment of the findings on sex differences in conformity behavior
Two concepts of adaptation
The paper takes issue with the traditional view of Darwin's influence on psychology; namely, that it is he who passed on to psychology the concept of individual adaptation. Three arguments are presented: a) that Darwin, qua scientist, was only interested in species adaptation, an entirely different concept from that of individual adaptation, b) that Darwin's writings on individual adaptation are so unexceptional that it is inconceivable that psyc…
Determinism, choice, responsibility and the psychologist's role as an expert witness
The Story of Education
The Story of Education
Determinism, choice, responsibility and the psychologist's role as an expert witness
Two concepts of adaptation
The paper takes issue with the traditional view of Darwin's influence on psychology; namely, that it is he who passed on to psychology the concept of individual adaptation. Three arguments are presented: a) that Darwin, qua scientist, was only interested in species adaptation, an entirely different concept from that of individual adaptation, b) that Darwin's writings on individual adaptation are so unexceptional that it is inconceivable that psyc…
Critique of Cooper's meta-analytic assessment of the findings on sex differences in conformity behavior
Television violence and aggression revisited
Television violence and aggression revisited
On Eron on Television Violence and Aggression
On Eron on Television Violence and Aggression
Sex differences in achievement self-attributions
Note on Cooper's findings on initial task choice
Psychology of the Scientist
The fable of a group of idiot savants, who conduct methodologically flawless research to test senseless research hypotheses and are able to affirm some of them on the basis of the rejection of the null hypothesis, is used to dramatize the argument that the rejection of the null hypothesis, by itself, is not sufficient grounds for affirming the research hypothesis. Reasons and examples are given to argue that affirmation of a scientific hypothesis…
Meta-analysis as a means of discovery
Meta-analysis as a means of discovery
Meta-Analysis and Science
Meta-analytic writers have argued that psychological science is not working and that the solution to the problem is meta-analysis (MA), quantitative summaries of the research literature. This paper assesses these claims by evaluating MA as a means of scientific discovery and by considering the nature of effective science. It is shown that MA should not be credited as a means of discovery because its database, the research literature, is an untrus…
Questions for Meta-Analysis
In spite of an abundance of data, the empirical evidence as yet does not make clear whether meta-analysis will bring about progress in psychological science. Therefore, it is still useful and desirable to engage in rational analysis of the methodology. Such analysis is done in the present essay by posing five questions that go to the logical and conceptual foundation of meta-analysis. The questions are (a) What are the grounds for believing that …
Questions for Meta-Analysis
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Statistical Significance and Replicability
Commentators agree with me that statistical significance does not betoken replicability, but not for the reasons I give. Chow (1998) defends the use of significance tests by arguing that they are useful for assessing the role of chance in findings. I dispute this by pointing out that the Type II error rate may be as high as 1 - ct. Falk (1998) defends Bayesian inference, which was impugned by me. She also makes a case for the use of replications …
Statistical Significance and Replicability
In spite of arguments to the contrary, psychologists, it is shown here, believe statistical significance (SS) signifies that a finding will replicate. The most visible argument that SS is not an index of replicability, one that is based in notions of Bayesian statistical inference, is considered and shown to be flawed. Two different arguments are presented that demonstrate the irrelevance of SS to replicability: (a) SS may not be taken as a sign …
Experimental Effects
The psychological literature has little to say about the constancy of experimental effects, whether those effects are the same for all individuals or vary with the individual. Investigators rarely specify whether the effects noted in research findings apply to every individual or are an average of varying individual effects. Where it does address the matter at all, namely in experimental design texts, the literature gives conflicting messages. It…
Significance testing and the science
Significance testing and the science
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (6 works) · Aggression (4 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works)