STATISTICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH DESIGN.

The article focuses on an increase in the amount of literature pertinent to quantitative methodology in psychology. The increase in such literature is particularly dramatic in the statistical journals. The content of the 1953 volume exceeds that of the 1952 volume for each of the four prominent journals--"Journal of the American Statistical Association," "Annals of Mathematical Statistics," "Biometrics," and "Biometrika." Total increase in size of the four is 484 pages, a 22 per cent jump over 1952. Further, it appears that a high proportion of the articles have direct relevance to research methods in the social and biological sciences.