Category: Ramblings

Banning the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure (NHSTP)

Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) is the first psychology journal to outright ban NHSTP.  The link to the short editorial tells the story, but you can certainly find much more on the subject from other sources.  Bayesian procedures are neither banned nor required.  The idea is that strong descriptive statistics,...

Likert pronunciation (Spoiler alert: LICK-ert)

This may be a bit ridiculous, but Likert Scales get used quite a lot in my reading and research.  Dan Newman stressed that Dr. Likert’s name is pronounced LICK-ert, but so many others use LIKE-ert.  In the interest of using a common language and honoring a person’s name, I want...

Data → Theory or Theory → Data?

The ordering between data and theory in theory development deserves attention. What drives the process initially? Is it data → theory → data (repeating) or theory → data → theory (repeating)? What is the foundation of theory development? Direct and indirect commentary are presented in several management theory-oriented articles. Sutton...