Épistémologie de la psychologie » a. Précis project

Si on y réfléchit, on découvre que l’école de la cinquième république apprend à une grande majorité de ses élèves qu’ils ne sont pas excellents. C’est de mon point de vue une cata...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/4738

Ce billet résulte de la difficulté, pour de nombreux étudiants de psychologie, de comprendre ce que sont les phénomènes statistiques rapportés par de nombreuses études empiriques en psycho...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/4294

I argue that a scientific explanation of an empirical phenomenon consists in claiming that this phenomenon obeys at least one kind of objective necessity, which satisfies the methodological crite...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1859

Psychometric item response models rest on the notion of the probability to pass the item. The present note investigates this notion from the epistemological perspective by contrast to the usual p...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1879

Classical Test Theory (CTT) underpins most of psychological test validation studies but does not explain how it is possible that a test score would measure a quantity. CTT interprets merely any s...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1443

The present note should be read with patience and tenacity because some technical notions, simple but abstract, are required for a minute conceptualisation. If the need arises, the reader should ...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1422

To pose the measurement problem in the context of psychological measurement with item responses, it is helpful to detail the notion of a format response. The formats of responses to test items ar...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1369

Definition. If observations (including responses to test items) measure a given amount of a given quantity, then their variation depends on the variation of the quantity amount, in such a way tha...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1346

I would like to contribute to a public controversy about the methodology of scientific research in psychology. I hope to draw attention of people who feel concerned on the way psychological resea...

https://epistemo.hypotheses.org/1329