What preference falsification cascades are you patiently waiting for?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
the existence of positive knowledge about social science
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Replying to @KevinSimler @literalbanana
David Chapman Retweeted Tal Yarkoni
Check this out (tweetstorm will be forthcoming, but it’s relevant here)https://twitter.com/talyarkoni/status/1220095499681902593 …
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Tal Yarkoni @talyarkoniexcellent, enjoyable discussion of my recent preprint on generalization in psychology (https://psyarxiv.com/jqw35 ). if you don't want to read 20 dense pages, you could listen to 40 minutes of this podcast and come away with a pretty accurate summary. thanks@minzlicht,@yorl! https://twitter.com/fourbeerspod/status/1219983054908817408 …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler
reading this makes me feel less crazypic.twitter.com/hMXVVZWz68
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Jokes aside, the task now imo is to understand why science works when it does. Which means putting aside the rationalist fairy tales and doing the hard work of analyzing lots of specifics and coming up with new, quite different understandings
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Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler
back to honest postage stamp collecting maybe
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Replying to @literalbanana @KevinSimler
Yeah that’s discussed in the podcast. It’s boring and the
@fourbeerspod guys say they don’t want to do it; they want to have Big Ideas, that’s what they signed up for in the Olde Days. I totally sympathize, which is why I am an internet crackpot, not a scientist3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana and
Ethnomethodology is one approach to honest stamp collecting in social science. Maybe the social psychologists should rebrand into EM?
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People challenge EM and say “you have no numbers!” And EM says “yes but here is a thing we know *people do*. Here’s 46 video segments where someone does it.” Like the bicycle disassembly trick.
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana and
“But you don’t know how probable it is people do it!” Why would that matter? People do the trick 7% of the time or 87%; provides the same constraint on models of cognition either way.
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“But this is trivial! It’s extremely specific!” That’s stamp collecting, yes… but then I point to the molecular biologist using the same trick. And then we collect some more like that and it starts to look like a coherent research program
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