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Did Residual Normality ever have a chance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Susan C. Levine
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 s-levine@uchicago.edut-regier@uchicago.edutsolomon@uchicago.edu http://www.eci.uchicago.edu/faculty/S_Levine.html http://www.psych.uchicago.edu/~regier
Terry Regier
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 s-levine@uchicago.edut-regier@uchicago.edutsolomon@uchicago.edu http://www.eci.uchicago.edu/faculty/S_Levine.html http://www.psych.uchicago.edu/~regier
Tracy L. Solomon
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 s-levine@uchicago.edut-regier@uchicago.edutsolomon@uchicago.edu http://www.eci.uchicago.edu/faculty/S_Levine.html http://www.psych.uchicago.edu/~regier

Abstract

Thomas & Karmiloff-Smith (T&K-S) show that the assumption of residual normality (RN) does not hold in connectionist simulations, and argue that RN has been inappropriately applied to childhood disorders. We agree. However, we suggest that the RN hypothesis may never have been fully viable, either empirically or computationally.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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