Thing is, in psychology we're taught to write "can test for reliability so reliable".. but imo from a bio perspective that makes no sense, yes a study being replicable means you can test for reliability, but being able to test for reliability doesn't then automatically make a study reliable
It's reliable if its results are consistent with those of other studies
Thing is, in psychology we're taught to write "can test for reliability so reliable".. but imo from a bio perspective that makes no sense, yes a study being replicable means you can test for reliability, but being able to test for reliability doesn't then automatically make a study reliable
It's reliable if its results are consistent with those of other studies
Don't you agree ?
Well I also do biology, chemistry and geography alongside psychology and I believe the definition of reliable applies to all 3 subjects if a study is being conducted
Well I also do biology, chemistry and geography alongside psychology and I believe the definition of reliable applies to all 3 subjects if a study is being conducted
Free Dictionary: "Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials"
AQA A-Level Biology definitions (from their website) says both: The results of an investigation may be considered reliable if they canbe repeated. If other scientists get the same results, then the resultsof the initial investigation are more likely to be reliable
I'm not arguing, I know that if you wrote what you said in an exam you'd probably get the mark, I'm just saying that in my opinion (look at the definition I posted from AQA) the part underlined is 100% unarguably true, but the part in bold just doesn't make sense in isolation. If you were trying to find out what caused people to commit crime and you conducted a study and found brain differences between criminals and "non-criminals", you wouldn't think "I used a brain scanning technique so it can be replicated, therefore I feel I can rely on these results alone because I know that other researchers can test it for reliability"