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Statistical and methodological myths and urban legends : doctrine, verity, and fable in the organizational and social sciences.
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ISBN: 9780805862379 9780805862386 0805862374 0805862382 9780203867266 9781135269616 9781135269654 9781135269661 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Routledge


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More statistical and methodological myths and urban legends
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ISBN: 9780415838986 0415838983 9780415838993 0415838991 9780203775851 9781135039417 9781135039424 0203867262 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Routledge

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This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are based partially in sound scientific rationale and partially in unfounded lore. Some examples of these “methodological urban legends” are characterized by manuscript critiques such as: (a) “your self-report measures suffer from common method bias”; (b) “your item-to-subject ratios are too low”; (c) “you can’t generalize these findings to the real world”; or (d) “your effect sizes are too low.What do these critiques mean, and what is their historical basis? More Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends catalogs several of these quirky practices and outlines proper research techniques. Topics covered include sample size requirements, missing data bias in correlation matrices, negative wording in survey research, and much more

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