Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends (eBook, PDF)

Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences
Redaktion: Lance, Charles E.; Vandenberg, Robert J; Lance, Charles E

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are characterized by manuscript critiques such as: (a) "your self-report measures suffer from common method bias"; (b) "your item-to-subject ratios are too low"; (c) "you can't generalize these findings to the real world"; or (d) "your effect sizes are too low".

Historically, there is a kernel of truth to most of these legends, but in many cases that truth has been long forgotten, ignored or embellished beyond recognition. This book examines several such legends. Each chapter is organized to address: (a) what the legend is that "we (almost) all know to be true"; (b) what the "kernel of truth" is to each legend; (c) what the myths are that have developed around this kernel of truth; and (d) what the state of the practice should be. This book meets an important need for the accumulation and integration of these methodological and statistical practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135269661
• Artikelnr.: 42510986

Autorenporträt

Charles E. Lance is a Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at The University of Georgia. His work in the areas of performance measurement, assessment center validity, research methods, and structural equation modeling has appeared in such journals as Psychological Methods, Organizational Research Methods (ORM), Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management and Multivariate Behavioral Research. His 2000 ORM article with Bob Vandenberg on measurement invariance is the most often cited article in ORM's history and won the 2005 Research Methods Division's Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award. His 2006 ORM article on the origin and evolution of four statistical cutoff criteria won the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management Best Paper of the Year Award. Also, his 2008 article "Why Assessment Centers (ACs) Do Not Work the Way They're Supposed to" was one of the two inaugural focal articles in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: An Exchange of Perspectives on Science and Practice. Dr. Lance is also co-editor of Performance Measurement: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges (with Wink Bennett and Dave Woehr). Dr. Lance is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association, former President of the Atlanta Society for Applied Psychology, is a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior and is a licensed psychologist in the State of Georgia. He is currently Associate Editor of ORM, and on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Human Performance, and Group & Organization Management. Robert J. Vandenberg is a Professor of Management in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA (USA). Bob's primary substantive research focuses are on organizational commitment, and high involvement work processes. His methodological research stream includes measurement invariance, latent growth modeling, and multilevel structural equation modeling. Bob's articles on these topics have appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organization Sciences, Group and Organization Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organizational Research Methods. Since 1999, both his substantive and methodological work has been integral to three funded grants totaling $4 million from the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Bob's measurement invariance article co-authored with Chuck Lance received the 2005 Robert McDonald Award for the Best Published Article to Advance Research Methods given by the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organizational Research Methods. He is currently the editor of Organizational Research Methods. He is past division chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, he is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Southern Management Association. He is also a fellow in the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis at Virginia Commonwealth University in which he conducts annual short courses in advanced structural equation modeling techniques.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Statistical Issues. Daniel A. Newman
Missing Data Techniques and Low Response Rates: The Role of Systematic Nonresponse Parameters. Michael J. Zickar
Alison A. Broadfoot
The Partial Revival of a Dead Horse? Comparing Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory. Deborah L. Bandalos
Meggen R. Boehm
Four Common Misconceptions in Exploratory Factor Analysis. Adam W. Meade
Tara S. Behrend
Charles E. Lance
Dr. StrangeLOVE
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Omitted Variables. James M. LeBreton
Jane Wu
Mark N. Bing
The Truth(s) on Testing for Mediation in the Social and Organizational Sciences. Jeffrey R. Edwards
Seven Deadly Myths of Testing Moderation in Organizational Research. Robert J. Vandenberg
Darrin M. Grelle
Alternative Model Specifications in Structural Equation Modeling: Facts
Fictions
and Truth. Ronald S. Landis
Bryan D. Edwards
Jose M. Cortina
On the Practice of Allowing Correlated Residuals Among Indicators in Structural Equation Models. Part 2. Methodological Issues. Lillian T. Eby
Carrie S. Hurst
Marcus M. Butts
Qualitative Research: The Red-Headed Stepchild in Organizational and Social Science Research? Scott Highhouse
Jennifer Z. Gillespie
Do Samples Really Matter That Much? Herman Aguinis
Erika E. Harden
Sample Size Rules of Thumb: Evaluating Three Common Practices. Jose M. Cortina
Ronald S. Landis
When Small Effect Sizes Tell a Big Story
and When Large Effect Sizes Don't. David Chan
Why Ask Me? Are Self-report Data Really that Bad? Charles E. Lance
Lisa E. Baranik
Abby R. Lau
Elizabeth A. Scharlau
If It Ain't Trait It Must Be Method: (Mis)application of the Multitrait Multimethod Design in Organizational Research. Marcus M. Butts
Thomas W. H. Ng
Chopped Liver? OK. Chopped Data? Not OK .