RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION
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Subject to opinion
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Studies multiple people
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They can be replicated
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They can’t be replicated
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lacking scientific rigour and providing little basis for generalization of results to the wider population. Researchers’ own subjective feeling may influence the case study (researcher bias). Difficult to replicate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scientists aim for their studies to be replicable-meaning that another researcher could perform a similar investigation and obtain the same basic results. When a study cannot be replicated, it suggests that our current understanding of the study system or our methods of testing are insufficient.
Detailed explanation-3: -If two or more cases are shown to support the same theory, replication can be claimed. In analytic generalisation, each case is viewed as an experiment, and not a case within an experiment. The greater the number of case studies that show replication the greater the rigour with which a theory has been established.
Detailed explanation-4: -Our results suggest that many of the studies failed to replicate because it was difficult to recreate, in another time and place, the exact same conditions as those of the original study. Dig deeper into the moment.