Summary: CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS IN STATISTICS, TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION
Chapter for Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology
David Danksa,b
Frederick Eberhardta
a
­ Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
b
­Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
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Introduction
By virtue of the individuals and processes being studied, cognitive psychology is a
methodologically challenging science. On the one hand, psychology aims to be a natural science,

Source: Andrews, Peter B. - Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

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