Identity communities often form based on outsider understandings of fields on the boundary of science and pseudoscience. When I asserted recently that fMRI stuff is largely nonsense, I got many outraged responses, apparently mostly from psychiatrists.https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/1141015324474712071 …
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The parallels with FMRI and social psych are not encouraging: low n, noisy data, high analysis flexibility after data in hand, heavy reliance on statistical significance as opposed to effect size.
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I'm pretty sure some results would be reproducible, but even then it is not entirely clear what it means, beyond that some tasks involve some areas more heavily, and possibly we could generalize these results. Some localization is well established by earlier methods.
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My sense is that a good deal of work around the five-factor model and general intelligence will survive. A great deal else will not.
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Dunno. Yes, both of these seem to get at *something*. Big Five just falls out of PCA, though, & whenever it contradicts data people disassemble it into “facets.” There’s no good mechanistic story, so I won’t be surprised if it turns out not to be real. Also not surprised if real.
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