TY - JOUR
T1 - Error, Error in My Model, Who’s the Fairest Error of Them All?
AU - Little, Todd D.
AU - Widaman, Keith F.
AU - Levy, Roy
AU - Rodgers, Joseph Lee
AU - Hancock, Gregory R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Institute for Measurement, Methodology, Analysis, and Policy (Todd D. Little, Director) at Texas Tech University.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - We examine some key errors that influence the validity of scientific inquiry in the social and behavioral sciences, emphasizing the need for researchers to be attuned to the varied sources of error. We discuss error beyond simple inferential processes inherent in null hypotheses testing, for example. and broaden the scope of influences in the modeling process, from model specification, to model evaluation, modification, and comparison as well as the dissemination process. From this broadened perspective on the myriad possible sources of error, error management becomes a multipronged endeavor that involves all persons contributing to the peer-review bedrock of scientific inquiry.
AB - We examine some key errors that influence the validity of scientific inquiry in the social and behavioral sciences, emphasizing the need for researchers to be attuned to the varied sources of error. We discuss error beyond simple inferential processes inherent in null hypotheses testing, for example. and broaden the scope of influences in the modeling process, from model specification, to model evaluation, modification, and comparison as well as the dissemination process. From this broadened perspective on the myriad possible sources of error, error management becomes a multipronged endeavor that involves all persons contributing to the peer-review bedrock of scientific inquiry.
KW - Structural equation modeling
KW - error management
KW - philosophy of science
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U2 - 10.1080/15427609.2017.1370965
DO - 10.1080/15427609.2017.1370965
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85033400701
SN - 1542-7609
VL - 14
SP - 271
EP - 286
JO - Research in Human Development
JF - Research in Human Development
IS - 4
ER -