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Why So Little Faith? A Reply to Blanton and Jaccard’s (2006) Skeptical View of Testing Pure Multiplicative Theories

Year: 2016

Type: preprint

Abstract: H. Blanton and J. Jaccard (2006) questioned the 4-test regression method used byA. G. Greenwald et al. (2002) to test a pure multiplicative theory. We address their concerns with a combination of simulations and meta-analysis. Simulations show that (a) Blanton and Jaccard’s preferred simultaneous regression method suffers severe power loss in testing multiplicative theories when predictor variables’ means deviate from rational zero values, and (b) Greenwald et al.’s 4-test method has a more limited weakness when predictor means deviate from rational zero in the positive direction. Meta-analyses showed that aggregate analyses of Greenwald et al.’s five experiments confirmed a multiplicative theory regardless of which analysis method was used. However, only the 4-test method could confirm a pure multiplicative theory.

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jdnm2_v1

Authors: Anthony G. Greenwald, Laurie Ann Rudman, Brian A. Nosek, Vivian Zayas

Institutions: Center for Open Science, University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Washington, National Institute of Mental Health

Awards: G1942787488, G2541021497, G4045998085

OpenAlex ID: W4409656545

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