{"id":1110,"date":"2013-11-04T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2016-01-17T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T16:17:23","slug":"lack-of-rigor-is-nothing-new-in-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lack of rigor&#8217; is nothing new in the social sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131104Stapel.jpg\" alt=\"131104Stapel\" width=\"260\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131104Stapel.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131104Stapel-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Nov. 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a great time for psychology. Diederik A. Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, has recently confessed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/magazine\/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">serial fraud<\/a>. That he gamed the peer review process of his field\u2019s best journals so often and for so long calls into question the quality-control mechanisms of academic psychology. If garbage can pass peer review, as long as it is well-written and well-formatted garbage, then the authority conferred by appearing in peer-reviewed publications would seem to be slight&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMost work in the psychological and social sciences suffers from a lack of conceptual rigor. It\u2019s a bit sloppy around the edges, and in the middle, too&#8230;. It\u2019s as if the precision of the statistical analysis is supposed somehow to compensate for, or help us forget, the imprecision of thought at the foundation of the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cBarbara Fredrickson\u2019s Bestselling \u2018<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/16\/barbara-fredrickson-s-bestselling-positivity-is-trashed-by-a-new-study.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Positivity\u2019 Is Trashed by a New Study<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d\u00a0by Will Wilkinson at the Daily Beast (Aug. 16, 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The contemporary cases Wilkinson cites and the episodes of the day-care ritual-abuse era bear many dissimilarities. But they share all too closely the practitioners\u2019 use of \u201cthe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1011\">precision<\/a>\u00a0of the statistical analysis&#8230; to compensate for, or help us forget, the imprecision of thought at the foundation of the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 4, 2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not a great time for psychology. Diederik A. Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, has recently confessed to\u00a0serial fraud. That he gamed the peer review process of his field\u2019s best journals so often and for so long calls into question the quality-control mechanisms of academic psychology. If garbage can pass peer review, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}