There is no generalizability crisis Comment

Falsificationist and confirmationist approaches provide two well-established ways of evaluating generalizability. Yarkoni rejects both and invents a third approach we call neo-operationalism. His proposal cannot work for the hypothetical concepts psychologists use, because the universe of operationalizations is impossible to define, and hypothetical concepts cannot be reduced to their operationalizations. We conclude that he is wrong in his generalizability-crisis diagnosis.

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This article discusses three approaches for evaluating generalizability: falsificationism, confirmationism, and neo-operationalism. The author argues that the proposed neo-operationalism does not work for hypothetical concepts in psychology, as these concepts cannot be reduced to their operationalizations.