Addressing the immensely important topic of research credibility, Raymond Hubbard's groundbreaking work proposes that we must treat such information with a healthy dose of skepticism. This book argues that the dominant model of knowledge procurement subscribed to in these areasthe significant difference paradigmis philosophically suspect, methodologically impaired, and statistically broken. Hubbard introduces a more accurate, alternative frameworkthe significant sameness paradigmfor developing scientific knowledge. The majority of the book comprises a head-to-head comparison of the "significant difference" versus "significant sameness" conceptions of science across philosophical, methodological, and statistical perspectives.