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  • Research Methodology

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  • Inferences about cognitive processes are vulnerable to aggregation issues.
  • Averaging across individuals can obscure strategy differences, while inadequate designs reduce diagnostic accuracy.

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  • To investigate how aggregation issues (across-individual averaging, inadequate designs) impact cognitive process inferences.
  • To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Systems Factorial Technology (SFT) under these jeopardies.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-combining two types of aggregation-related jeopardies in a 2x2 analysis.
  • Utilizing Systems Factorial Technology (SFT) principles for cognitive process analysis.

Main Results:

  • Diagnostic accuracy of cognitive process inferences declined when either jeopardy was present alone.
  • Combined jeopardies further reduced diagnostic accuracy, highlighting the impact of flawed aggregation.

Conclusions:

  • Problematic aggregation methods significantly harm the validity of cognitive process inferences.
  • Future research should prioritize individual subject analyses and employ full-factorial SFT designs for robust findings.