Dr. Sloan has been examining the research and has found it to be rife with methodological problems and statistical flaws.
But studies linking psychological state to prognosis are fraught with methodological issues, false-positive results, reporting of associations rather than causality, and manipulation of statistics.
Despite these jabs, however, Mr. Maffesoli's critics insist that their objections to Ms. Teissier's thesis have nothing to do with methodological disputes.
"Literary and cultural studies … have always thought about themselves as a 'science' in the more general sense of wissenschaft – a form of knowledge with methodological norms, expectations, and so on".
Similarly with methodological naturalism.
As such, these critiques are consistent with methodological adaptationism.
So scientists are stuck with methodological naturalism, appealing only to natural causes in explaining natural phenomena.
These demands on PD research overlap with methodological improvements in education research.
The field has also been marked by increasing concern with methodological aspects.
Obviously, such experiments would be fraught with methodological complications and grossly unethical.
One problem with methodological individualism is that it is radically revisionary, for biology at least.
