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The problem of test power in the context of quantitative research in psychology
Urbánek, Tomáš
The statistic methods are widely used in psychological research using both questionnaires and experimental methods. In the statistical data processing, the concept of statistical significance is currently used, but the inseparable problematic of test power is very rarely taken into account. The author tries to correct some mistakes connected with the use of concept of statistical significance and presents the concept of test power as the essential part of the preparation and realisation of quantitativve research in psychology.
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Why are Psychological Theories Intelligible to all People
Šikl, Radovan ; Čermák, Ivo
The authors try to prove in their paper that a great part of psychological principles is evident to the laymen public. The majority of people is able to infer it easy on the basis of their life experience. The questionnaire was presented to the heteroogeneous sample of 15 laymen. The items were formulated by the means of common, non-expert language with possibility of choice of the right answer.It was proved that the majority of them was able to identify the right answer without problems. The authors draw the conclusion from that fact that the basis of scientific psychology is made by common sense.
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Convention in Sciences and Philosophy
Nosek, Jiří
The collection of 23 papers concerning the general questions of convention from the point of view of a) linguistics and philosophy of language, b) aesthetic, literary, and cultural theories, c) physics, mathematics, and philosophy of science.
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