We respond to comments by Pope regarding research by Poole, Lindsay, M
emon, and Bull. Pope called on psychologists to ''scrutinize the assum
ptions'' underlying our research on the grounds that the findings were
reported inappropriately, there was no plan to control for Type I err
ors, and the sample was too small. We rebut each of these criticisms a
nd clarify the findings and conclusions offered by Poole et al.