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Methods and statistics

Reporting research: Something missing?

Philip Banyard and Nigel Hunt analyse what is missing from the method sections of British psychology journals.

18 February 2000

Are we telling the full story in our research reports? Do the journals of the British Psychological Society give full accounts of procedure in their method sections? And is our research still largely based on student samples? This article looks at these questions and raises issues of concern for psychologists.

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