Meta Analysis

The book will be of interest to all those who want to receive a crisp and short overview of how Philosophy of Science, The History of Statistics and the History of Psychology coalesced in the 1970's to overcome the hybrid version of hypothesis testing developed in the 1930's. Dr. Froehling criticizes the current usage of statistics which makes the writing of dissertations a ritual in the application of statistics rather than the development and testing of new theories. He offers a framework within which both quantitative and qualitative data analysis play a role in order to overcome the shortcomings of the myopic focus on statistics in psychology and the behavioral sciences.