Attitudes des sociologues à l'égard de la Notion de généralisation des résultats: Questionnaire sur l'inférence statistique

Abstract

Soclologists' attitudes toward the generalizationof results: a questionnaire on statistical inference. A questionnaire was presented to 19 sociologists. It required the use of statistical inference based on results obtained from numerical data from a hypothetical study. The questionnaire responses were compared with a Bayesian method in order to study the sociologists' attitudes in making a statisitical inference. The responses were very heterogeneous and many subjects were quite reserved about working with results based only on numerical data with no supplementary information. Statistical inference