Psychology’s tendency to focus on confirmatory analyses before ensuring constructs are clearly defined and accurately measured is exacerbating the generalizability crisis. Our growing use of digital behaviors as predictors has revealed the fragility of subjective measures and the latent constructs they scaffold. However, new technologies can provide opportunities to improve conceptualizations, theories, and measurement practices.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/measurement-practices-exacerbate-the-generalizability-crisis-novel-digital-measures-can-help/057CCCE8C3F8DB123DC2AB2543C9375D
The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, pp E10 2022, © 2022 Cambridge University Press.
