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A good experiment of choice behavior is a good caricature of a real situation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Francisco J. Gil-White
Francisco J. Gil-White
Affiliation:
Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104 fjgil@psych.upenn.edu
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Abstract

I argue that (1) the accusation that psychological methods are too diverse conflates “reliability” with “validity”; (2) one must not choose methods by the results they produce – what matters is whether a method acceptably models the real-world situation one is trying to understand; (3) one must also distinguish methodological failings from differences that arise from the pursuit of different theoretical questions.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 409 - 410
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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