Qualitative Individual Differences are Useful, but Reliability Should be Assessed and Not Assumed

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number48
JournalJournal of Cognition
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Aug 2021

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Keywords

  • Cognitive Control
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Statistical analysis

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