When the Numbers Do Not Add Up: The Practical Limits of Stochastologicals for Soft Psychology.
Broers Nick J·Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
One particular weakness of psychology that was left implicit by Meehl is the fact that psychological theories tend to be verbal theories, permitting at best ordinal predictions. Such predictions do not enable the high-risk tests that would strengthen our belief in the verisimilitude of theories but instead lead to the…