Psychology / Unit 13 Psych 1471 review, 2 to 3 minutes
Reading a Psychology Headline End to End
The idea
Auditing a published psychology claim means running it through sampling, design, operationalization, statistics, replication, and developmental confounds before accepting any sentence of it.
In practice
One press release and the paper behind it, worked through completely: who was sampled and who the finding therefore describes, whether the design permits the causal verb the headline uses, how each variable was operationalized and what that excludes, what the significance claim does and does not establish, whether the finding has replicated, and whether an age difference in the data is age or cohort. Ends with the one sentence the study supports, written out.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0039Falsifiability
- 0044Operational Definition
- 0051Random Sampling
- 0052Sampling Bias
- 0063Correlation
- 0064The Correlation–Causation Error
- 0076The Third-Variable Problem
- 0085The Experiment
- 0089Random Assignment
- 0103Statistical Significance
- 0104Misreading Statistical Significance
- 0114Replication
- 0859Cross-Sectional Design
- 0863The Cohort Effect
- 1440Evaluating a Therapy Claim
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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