There is no psychology without inferential statistics.
Shilaan AlzahawiBenoît MoninPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Quantification has been constitutive of psychology since its inception and is core to its scientific status. The adoption of qualitative methods eschewing inferential statistics is therefore unlikely to obtain. Rather than discarding useful tools because of improper use, we recommend highlighting how inferential statistics can be more thoughtfully applied.