A detailed description of the design, analysis and meta-analysis of studies employing judgments will permit readers of this work to conduct and evaluate similar studies more wisely.
Contents
Preface; Part I. The Design of Judgement Studies: 1. The nature of judgement studies; 2. Sampling judges and encoders; 3. Stimulus selection and presentation; 4. Judges' responses; Part II. The Analysis of Judgement Studies: 5. Forming composites and other re-descriptions of variables; 6. Significance testing and effect size estimation; 7. The interpretation of interaction effects; 8. Contrasts: focused comparisons in the analysis of data; 9. Contrasts in repeated-measures designs; Part III. The Meta-Analysis of Judegment Studies: 10. Comparing and combining judgement studies; 11. Combining probabilities; Appendix; References; Name index; Subject index.
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"...invites the interest of any who would evaluate judgment studies or learn to conduct them...a valuable source of guidance..." Contemporary Psychology
"...consistently clear and characterized by admirable good sense." Contemporary Sociology
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