Measuring Well What Is Ill Defined?

摘要

Maul's paper is a clever and pointed indictment of a set of specific but widespread practices in psychological measurement and the social sciences at large. Through it, Maul highlights central issues in the way we approach theory building and theory testing, bringing to mind the words of Allport, who indicated in 1935 that attitudes-a central concept in social psychology-were "measured more successfully than they are defined" (p. 828).