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Of all the lessons that one might learn at school, probably the most important is how to find out. Systematic changes in the school curriculum and in methods of teaching have given pupils today arguably the soundest preparation they have ever had and the best foundation for intellectual independence.
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Further study
Gardiner, J.M. and Kaminska, K. (1975) First Experiments in Psychology. London: Methuen.
Legge, D. (1975) An Introduction to Psychological Science. London: Methuen.
Miller, S.H. (1976) Experimental Design and Statistics. London: Methuen.
Annotated reading
Cook, T.D. and Campbell, D.T. (1979) Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings. Chicago: Rand McNally. Describes techniques that may be available when experiments cannot be used.
Barber, T.X. (1977) Pitfalls in Human Research. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Jung, J. (1971) The Experimenter’s Dilemma. New York: Harper & Row. Some books have analysed the sources of difficulty in finding out; these are two useful ones.
Meddis, R. (1973) Elementary Analysis of Variance for the Behavioural Sciences. London: McGraw-Hill. The student can acquire more advanced treatments for complex experiments from this text.
Miller, S.H. (1976) Experimental Design and Statistics. London: Methuen.
Robson, C. (1973) Experiment, Design and Statistics in Psychology. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Two relatively simple and accessible paperback volumes which act as starter texts in psychological statistics.
Siegel, S. (1956) Non-parametric statistics for the Behavioural Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill. The ‘bible’ of the non-parametric techniques that has proved indispensable to psychologists.
Snodgrass, J.G. (1977) The Numbers Game: Statistics for psychology. London: Oxford University Press. The student who masters the first two may want to go further. This should provide some help to that progress.
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Legge, D. (1982). How Do You Know? Psychology and Scientific Method. In: Psychology for Speech Therapists. Psychology for Professional Groups. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16746-3_3
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