Question

Describe the limitations of psychological enquiry and briefly explain it.

Answer 1

a) Lack of true zero point: Psychological measurements do not have a true point like physical sciences. For example, there is no zero interest, attitude or personality. So the measurements are not absolute ,they are relative in nature. Sometimes ranks are also used as scores.

b) Relative nature of psychological tools: Psychological tests, Questionnaire etc. are not universally applied, they are made for particular context. Tools developed in urban context may not be applied in rural area, also Western tests and other tools may not apply else where.

c) Subjective interpretation qualitative data: The data which cannot be categorised or quantified in scores or ranks, runs the risk of subjective interpretation. Every researcher may give different meanings to data.

 

 

Lack of true zero point, Relative nature of Psychological tools, Subjective interpretation qualitative data