Surrogates for Theories

by: Gerd Gigerenzer

Theory Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 2. (1 April 1998), pp. 195-204.

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Abstract

I first discuss several strategies that serve as surrogates for theories in psychology: one-word explanation, redescription, drawing vague dichotomies, and data fitting. I then identify two conventions that allow these surrogates to flourish and multiply: null hypothesis testing, which makes precise hypotheses irrelevant, and the isolation of research in different disciplines, which prevents the exchange of positive metaphors between fields. 10.1177/0959354398082006

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