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There is no generalizability crisis
Daniël Lakens1, Duygu Uygun Tunç2, Mehmet Necip Tunç3
1Human-Technology Interaction Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Atlas 9.402, 5600BM, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsD.Lakens@tue.nlhttps://sites.google.com/site/lakens2.
Abstract:
Falsificationist and confirmationist approaches provide two well-established ways of evaluating generalizability. Yarkoni rejects both and invents a third approach we call neo-operationalism. His proposal cannot work for the hypothetical concepts psychologists use, because the universe of operationalizations is impossible to define, and hypothetical concepts cannot be reduced to their operationalizations. We conclude that he is wrong in his generalizability-crisis diagnosis.
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