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Experiments are not valid.

May 29th, 2007

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is experimental validity in the mind of the inferrer.*
If this sounds like nonsense, I heartily recommend the following lit review by Albright and Malloy.**
Albright, L., Malloy, T.E. (2000) Experimental validity: Brunswik, Campbell, Cronbach, and enduring issues. Review of General Psychology, Vol 4(4), Dec 2000. […]

Backhanded Compliments

April 19th, 2007

Those of us in experimental psychology often feel misunderstood. Witness the backhanded compliment paid to psychologists in an otherwise fascinating article by Bill Mckibben in the March issue of Mother Jones.
“Reversal of Fortune” is an article about the importance of creating more realistic models of human behavior in economics–about how too many material goods […]