Grounding the data. A response to: Population finiteness is not a concern for null hypothesis significance testing when studying human behavior

Frontiers in Psychology

Thomas V. Pollet¹ 

关键词: cross-cultural research;    p-value;    statistical inference;    evolutionary psychology;    ecological fallacy;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01169

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

I am thankful to Quillien (2015) for his response to my paper (Pollet, 2013), as it allows clarifying my position. Firstly, I would like to underline that the purpose of my paper was to flesh out the (implicit) statistical assumptions underpinning cross-cultural correlations. However, what I highlighted is but a side-issue when working with macro-level cross-cultural data (e.g., Poortinga, 1989; Mace and Pagel, 1994; Pollet et al., 2014). I would like to bring the discussion back to “earth” and clarify why I believe, in contrast to Quillien (2015), that finite populations might be problematic in this context.

【 授权许可】

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