The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action
The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.017
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Legare, Cristine H.
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作者：
Nielsen, Mark;Haun, Daniel;Legare, Cristine H.
心理学必须正视其广泛文献中对参与者在不能代表世界绝大多数人口的环境中发展的研究的偏见。在这里，我们将重点放在应对这一挑战的影响上，强调需要解决过度依赖狭窄的参与者群体的问题，并强调在不同人群中进行研究的价值和必要性。我们表明，高影响因子的发展期刊严重倾向于发表来自奇怪(西方、受过教育、工业化、富裕和民主)人群的数据的文章。最关键的是，尽管人们呼吁改变，并理应广泛意识到这个问题，但人们习惯性地依赖于方便抽样，几乎没有证据表明该学科正在采取任何有意义的行动，从不同的样本中提取数据。未能正视这样一种可能性，即文化上特定的发现被错误地认为是普遍的特征，这对构建科学上有根据的理论和可靠地公开传播研究结果具有广泛的影响。(C)2017 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Psychology must confront the bias in its broad literature toward the study of participants developing in environments unrepresentative of the vast majority of the world's population. Here, we focus on the implications of addressing this challenge, highlight the need to address overreliance on a narrow participant pool, and emphasize the value and necessity of conducting research with diverse populations. We show that high-impact-factor developmental journals are heavily skewed toward publishing articles with data from WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations. Most critically, despite calls for change and supposed widespread awareness of this problem, there is a habitual dependence on convenience sampling and little evidence that the discipline is making any meaningful movement toward drawing from diverse samples. Failure to confront the possibility that culturally specific findings are being misattributed as universal traits has broad implications for the construction of scientifically defensible theories and for the reliable public dissemination of study findings. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.