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Neat! Looks like it's mostly just getting started and mostly empty so far. The premise is refreshing though -- they're pretty upfront about the huge problems
by _Nat_ 5y ago
Neat! Looks like it's mostly just getting started and mostly empty so far.
The premise is refreshing though -- they're pretty upfront about the huge problems in prior practice, e.g. (https://computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/part_i/intro https://computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/par...):
> These days it is probably not controversial to say that NHST [null hypothesis significance testing] has been psychology’s hammer that made cognition and behaviour look like a nail. Fervent use of this hammer, which took center stage in the ‘replication crisis’, has most certainly contributed to a relative [neglect of solid theory building in psychological science](https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/psychological-science-needs-theory-development-before-preregistration/ https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/psychological-scienc...). Why? Well, a hammer (especially in the form of NHST) is not a suitable tool for sculpting theoretical models.
, and they seem to be explaining methods that employ modeling, like pretty much all STEM fields use.
Looks like a great opportunity for Psychology (and probably other similar fields too) to progress beyond prior practice.
- timkam 5y agoStill, one also must acknowledge that the hammer of using simple formal models to describe human decision-making has led to a crisis as well (in microeconomic theory). So it's best to do it like Tversky and Kahneman and build formal models that are then empirically tested.