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Theories and models: What they are, what they are for, and what they are about

2020-10-09

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<p>In Fried (this issue), I argue that a lot of work in the social sciences generally—and in psychology specifically—reads like an exercise in statistical model fitting, and falls short of theory building and testing in three ways. First, theories are absent, which fosters conflating statistical models with theoretical models. Second, theories are latent, i.e. implied but not explicated. Third, theories are weak,...

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Literature Corpus work: b80a5cad-56fe-56f5-86c3-2b97e12ebfc4
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/s2j5a

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