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When Average is Over: Small N but Many Trials

Rouder & Haaf (2021) provide a valuable recipe for testing whether there are qualitative differences. This should hasten the day when psychologists routine consider individual participant data, rather than just the average of the participants’ data. Work remains to be done, however, on how to ap...

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Autor principal: Holcombe, Alex O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34514318
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.168
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spelling pubmed-83961302021-09-09 When Average is Over: Small N but Many Trials Holcombe, Alex O. J Cogn Commentary Rouder & Haaf (2021) provide a valuable recipe for testing whether there are qualitative differences. This should hasten the day when psychologists routine consider individual participant data, rather than just the average of the participants’ data. Work remains to be done, however, on how to approach the issue of individual differences with the small-N, many-trials tradition that dates back to the beginning of experimental psychology and continues today in some areas, particularly cognitive modelling and perception. Ubiquity Press 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8396130/ /pubmed/34514318 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.168 Text en Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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