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- Title
NOTE: PROPOSITION OF A NULL HYPOTHESIS MODEL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF RESULTS IN EXPERIMENTS OF GROUP CONSENSUS.
- Authors
Achard, Pierre
- Abstract
In the field of social psychology, one often has to collate individual judgments of a certain number of subjects with the collective answer that the same subjects give in a group situation. Various experimental procedures have been used in such cases to obtain numerical results. The purpose of this article is to study, by means of an example, the problems involved in the statistical analysis of such data, in particular to enable one to locate the mechanical implications of the task and avoid attributing some results, which are not relevant, to social or psychological effects. The proper experimental effect will then appear, differentially, as that part of the results that the statistical calculation fails to explain. Building a null hypothesis model has three advantages, (1) one can explain, from the initial distribution, some apparent global effects that are not of psycho-sociological relevance; (2) one can discriminate specific discussion effects as differences from the expectations of the model; (3) one can examine separately the sub-population of responses when the consensus is not a expected value.
- Subjects
CONSENSUS (Social sciences); HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL models; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL interaction; SOCIAL psychology; MATHEMATICAL analysis
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1979, Vol 13, Issue 4, p339
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00188020