The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)

A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In this reply, some of our key concerns about relying on aggregated psychometric measures are explained, and we raise q...

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Autores principales: Copping, Lee T., Campbell, Anne, Muncer, Steven, Richardson, George B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Special Issue: Psychometrics and Variation in Human Life History Indicators
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10480921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28152625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704916663727
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description A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In this reply, some of our key concerns about relying on aggregated psychometric measures are explained, and we raise questions generally regarding the use of higher order factor structures. Responses to some of the statistical issues raised by Figueredo et al. are also detailed. We stand by our original conclusions and call for more careful consideration of instruments used to evaluate hypotheses derived from LH theory.
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spelling pubmed-104809212023-09-07 The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015) Copping, Lee T. Campbell, Anne Muncer, Steven Richardson, George B. Evol Psychol Special Issue: Psychometrics and Variation in Human Life History Indicators A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In this reply, some of our key concerns about relying on aggregated psychometric measures are explained, and we raise questions generally regarding the use of higher order factor structures. Responses to some of the statistical issues raised by Figueredo et al. are also detailed. We stand by our original conclusions and call for more careful consideration of instruments used to evaluate hypotheses derived from LH theory. SAGE Publications 2017-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10480921/ /pubmed/28152625 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704916663727 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)
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title_fullStr The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)
title_full_unstemmed The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)
title_short The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories: A Reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)
title_sort psychometric evaluation of human life histories: a reply to figueredo, cabeza de baca, black, garcia, fernandes, wolf, and woodley (2015)
topic Special Issue: Psychometrics and Variation in Human Life History Indicators
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10480921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28152625
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