Qualitative individual differences are useful, but reliability should be assessed and not assumed

Hedge, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6145-3319 2021. Qualitative individual differences are useful, but reliability should be assessed and not assumed. Journal of Cognition 4 (1) , 48. 10.5334/joc.169

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Abstract

Rouder and Haaf (2021) propose that studying qualitative individual differences would be a useful tool for researchers. I agree with their central message. I use this commentary to highlight examples from the literature where similar questions have been asked, and how researchers have addressed them with existing tools. I also observe that while the hierarchical Bayesian framework is a useful tool for studying individual differences, it does not relieve us of the requirement to evaluate the forms of reliability that are critical to our research questions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Additional Information:	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0)
Publisher:	Ubiquity Press
ISSN:	2514-4820
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 September 2021
Date of Acceptance:	15 May 2021
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 11:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144284

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