On constructing a parody and then knocking it down: a reaction to Kerr and Blais
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ABSTRACT:
Kerr and Blais' (2000) paper is frequently ambiguous, incoherent, and severely misrepresents the work of Bouffard, Strean and Davis (1998). Kerr and Blais have committed the logical fallacy of attacking a straw man, which is to misrepresent an opponent's argument presumably for the purpose of making its attack easier. Although they indicate their desire to proceed without reference to ontological and epistemological assumptions, they implicitly submit the contentious statement that eclecticism is a philosophy that has been accepted by movement skill acquisition researchers. They also endorse eclecticism as a philosophy. In this reaction, I question the validity of numerous statements made by Kerr and Blais and elaborate on some points we made in 1998. I conclude that Kerr and Blais' paper is a parody of Bouffard, Strean and Davis' work, which is unlikely to advance our understanding, and submit that the study of research assumptions is an essential part of genuine inquiry.
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