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2015

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One could argue that the American Psychological Association may be the best organization to produce such reference works, given that all of these books deal with psychology. The same, however, cannot be said about a dictionary of statistics and research methods because they are their own disciplines, they have a small degree of overlap with psychology, and they already have their own dictionaries (I’ll use the term statistics to refer to both statistics and research methods). However, given that all psychologists are supposed to have some familiarity with statistics (even if it is only repressed memories), one could argue that a dictionary of the statistics that psychologists use is justified. As the preface reports, the editorial team started out with 8,000 terms (headwords) from the APA Dictionary of Psychology, articles from the APA journal Psychological Methods, and other unspecified sources to form a list of 4,080 headwords. I do not mean to disparage the efforts of the editor ...

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