I quite agree, and I wish it were the only lapse in APS editing. In Holland et al. "Don't Stand So Close to Me: The Effects of Self-Construal on Interpersonal Closeness" ( Psychological Science Volume 15 Issue 4 Page 237 - April 2004 ). They report the following methodology:
"After completing the lexical decision task, the participants were asked to take a seat in a waiting area, ostensibly to give the experimenter some time to prepare the second part of the experiment. Four chairs were lined up in the waiting area, with a jacket hanging over the chair on the extreme left. This jacket suggested the presence of another person (Macrae & Johnston, 1998). The dependent variable was the distance, *** in number of chairs, *** (my emphasis) between the chair with the jacket on it and the chair that the participant chose to sit on." They then analyse the data as follows: "To examine the effects of self-construal and gender, we performed a 2 (self-construal: independent vs. control)2 (gender: female vs. male) between-subjects analysis of variance on the distance between the participant's chair and the occupied chair. As expected, participants in the independent-self condition sat further away (M=2.07) than participants in the control condition (M=1.66), F(1, 73)=8.57, p<.01. 1 No main effect of gender was obtained. Also, no interaction effect was found." Now I have a hard time accepting that "number of chairs" is interval data. A non parametric analysis would have been far more appropriate. Editorial rigour just ain't what it used to be. -Don. Stephen Black said: >> Ronald C. Blue wrote: >> >> > http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2004/pr040819.cfm >> First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual >> Development > > and Chris Greeen commented: > >> Now none of this is out and out "wrong," > > Oh, it's wrong all right. See earlier exchanges on this "solid > evidence", between Ken Steele and me, for example, at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10749.html > > Stephen > > ___________________________________________________ > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 > Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at > http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm > _______________________________________________ > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
