The analysis of variance in experimental psychology: 1934–1945

Abstract

The paper provides a survey of early applications of analysis of variance in psychology, concentrating on experimental psychology, but with one or two brief excursions into educational psychology. The work demonstrates that incorporating the technique into psychology was a long and painful process. This was due more to the substantive implications of the method than to the purely practical matters of increased arithmetical labour and novelty of language that the new technique brought with it. Such a view differs radically from that expressed by commentators working during the period covered by the paper and later. Finally, a brief account of how experiments were conducted and analysed prior to analysis of variance is provided so as to point up the sources of difficulty with the method. A special section is devoted to early attempts to cope with the concept of interaction.

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