Are we making a science of missing the point?
Our basic point of contention with House concerns the form we ultimately expect our sceintific explanations of retarded behavior to take. It is our view that mental retardation, which is basically a social phenomenon, can be meaningfully understood only to the extent that ecological validity and other related issues are assigned prominence in our theories and experiments.
D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012107:Research Design