The scientist–practitioner gap: A call to end the debate

Writing from an academic and small business perspective, Zhou and colleagues (2024) shed light on the scientist-practitioner gap in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology and invite collegial debate by delineating seven multifaceted questions in their focal article.In our commentary, we discuss these questions and espouse the following viewpoints: (a) the scientist-practitioner gap is indeed overstated; (b) changing the way that journal articles are written for the sake of reaching a wider audience would require additional training of doctoral students, learning new methodological skills, and putting more pressure on tenure-track faculty; (c) the scientistpractitioner gap does not matter to any of the four types of I-O psychologists (Olenick et al., 2018); and (4) the scientist-practitioner gap is not an individual actor problem