Chris Crandall

. . . as you make up rules . . .

Is it really a crisis, or just a discovery that disappoints and illuminates at the same time?

Many political scientists rely on the ANES.

I don’t have any trouble with the criticism or the discussion, but why is this tagged in Metascience?

I don’t think it’s a “MASSIVE” step back to say that ST has different kinds of effects on affect, cognition & behavior. Performance on tests should be only one thing.

But one must agree that performance is what attracted people to the phenomenon and is key to why people care in the outside world.

Not sure who’s claiming that. Raven’s prog. matrices are just 1 (kinda oddball) performance DV. Small effects are effects.

The phenomenon is so obviously “situated” and contextual that very specific theory is needed (about context) and studies need to meet these criteria.

“. . . of your* lifetime.”

*Conditions apply. Does not apply if born after noon, EDT, January 19, 1989 (must be 37 or younger).

Every one of those are in my lifetime.

Are you thinking only youngsters read this? I’ve got Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and even Reagan.

Murdering the spirit of Kurt Lewin.

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“Church,” I know.

Galileo defied the Church’s requirement of modesty (according to scientific norms of the time AND today), and it was for this he was punished.

Once the physics of optics was worked out, his data could be considered reliable.

Yes. He was persecuted because the Chirch, following the prevailing standards of scientific inference, required him to present his position tentatively, as a speculative theory, not an established fact. Lacking a theory of optics, how telescopes worked—or if they worked—was up in the air (😉).

I think you need to read "Against Method" by Paul Feyerabend. He upends traditional thinking about the Church and Galileo, based on a reading of the historical record.

Here's a 🧵 connecting a number of Mark Rubin's contributions on p-hacking and statistical inference as connected to one's philosophy of science.

Under differing regimes, p-hacking and preregistration can have large or small or no consequence for scientific inferences.

I was never tested. But if some rich dude said my work was really important, that he’d like to help fund it, would I go on a private jet to a conference with Pinjer and Chomsky and Kosslyn?, man I would need to remember to do a Google search of the guy.

It’s also possible he only responded to males. Both plausible hypotheses. But the former seems right.

Wait until you get older. Standard neuro assessment. After five decades, it’s back.

Lets imagine that I was doing my bit for the students?
Making philosophy possible?
🤷‍♂️

I taught four courses for UF, full-time, 300 students each, $28,500.

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🪶📜 = poetic license emoji.

I agree. I was simply responding to the “there’s no universe where this makes causal sense.” It’s not unimaginable.

Which is not evidence in favor of it, of course.

Low-to-zero has least health benefits, modest has higher benefits, too much involves loss of benefit to direct harm.

Sodium intake has this shape.

That’s more straightforward, for sure.

If you want to make a philosophical or scientific argument, you should make it.