Surrogates for theories (1998)

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Abstract

I first discuss several strategies that serve as surrogates for theories in psychology: one-word ex- planation, 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

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Gigerenzer, G. (1998). Surrogates for theories. Theory & Psychology, 8, 195-204. (Full text)

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