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I remember a talk at NIPS, a number of years back, where a psychologist was criticizing statistical approaches used by ML practitioners. And telling us that unl

I remember a talk at NIPS, a number of years back, where a psychologist was criticizing statistical approaches used by ML practitioners. And telling us that unlike ML practitioners (who still live in the dark ages), modern psychology researchers had realized their wrongs ways of the past. And now they register their studies and the statistical methodology upfront. They review it, register the experiments and only then conduct these, publishing both positive and negative results of the registered study.

mjburgess 3y ago
The issue is that psychologists still do not understand the non-statistical premises of their statistical applications. Without a causal model of a human mind (and its relationship to the world) -- what exactly is there a "statistics" of? You cannot really have a scientific psychology; the necessary experiments are impossible or unethical.