The credibility revolution in personality & social psychology aims to fix the fundamental methodological problems and turn it into a real science. Some participants wonder whether, when the dust clears, anything will be left. But, so far, so good! A model for other fields.
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Replying to @Meaningness
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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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
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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Replying to @robamacl
Yes, Broca’s vs Wernicke, etc. But even if the fMRI data were reliable, what could it mean? Which is Fodor’s question, and mine to my sister circa 1992.
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Oh, hmm, Wikipedia suggests what I learned about Broca’s vs Wernicke’s 40 years ago has been disproven by fMRI. Hmph.
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Replying to @robamacl
I guess? Using a sketchy newer method to refute what you thought you knew based on a sketchy older method is progress probably
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Replying to @Meaningness
The old studies of human brain damage were pretty low n, and a big problem was that they didn't know very precisely what had been damaged until CT scans came along in the 80's.
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Replying to @robamacl
Ah. I vaguely remember them being based on dissection postmortem but that probably has its own problems...
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Replying to @Meaningness
Yes I recall that was done also. My feel is that this relied pretty heavily on expert judgment of neurologists to see patterns, rather than big data statistics.
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Yes that seems like it must be right.
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