“Hey, I think this method is nonsense!”, then my recommendation is to throw the burden of proof back in the other direction. If your lab publishes a paper using a particular statistical method, it’s the job of the authors of that paper to make a convincing case for why this...
and general principles for the collective economy, neighborhood security, fire safety, community sanitation, marriage, neighborhood relations, family planning, and activities concerning cultural progress. All
When a worker sells his labour to a capitalist who owns a coffee mug factory, she enters a process in which her relation with other workers—with those who could have taken her job, those who work on products that she will later consume with her wage, and so on—is mediated by commodit...
As a solution, we treat each of the nine constructs in our analysis as ‘already measured,’ meaning that the models are estimated on composite scores, obtained by averaging the responses to the items comprising the Likert scales. Thus estimated, the manifest mediation model has no measurement ...
Social systems are much more complex and much less deterministic than physical ones, making their unpredictability even more extreme and ruling out the possibility of modeling their future behavior in a reliable way. The first consequence of the intricate, evolving, and unpredictable complexity of ...