A really nice article on what scientific theories are, why they're desirable/amazing, and what has happened in psychology due to a lack of them http://osc.centerforopenscience.org/2013/11/20/theoretical-amnesia/ …
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It might be useful to specify the degree of precision we are seeking to attain and the scope of the predictions we intend to formulate. Then we can perhaps determine whether this is viable at the level of 'theory'
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I have no problem with others having different definitions of theory to me TBH. Variety in methods and variety in definitions is a good thing.
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Regarding my other point implementations vs theories, examples given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT-R#Theory_vs._implementation,_and_Vanilla_ACT-R …
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This is a fundamental distinction that, unfortunately, is too often disregarded and one critical reason why, in my view, many psychologists misunderstand the complexities of building computational models
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I'm not sure I fully understand the difference. Is implementation here the actual coding langauge/software (which I guess would be similar to Marr's levels)? Is it still common for psychologists to use these kinds of models tied to specific code?
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Grace, I'm really sorry I have a migraine (been 3 weeks now), so I am going to link to something I wrote and get back to prepping a talk: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.05.001 … When I feel better/have less on my plate I'll come back — also I am sure Esther and others can do a great job. Sorry!
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Also just to be clear the answer is in what I linked to but I obviously would rather talk it out over Twitter since I know it's useful in and of itself.
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Olivia is the expert here but plainly put, the main difference is that the implementation (code) includes many instructions that are alien to the theory itself and that are required for the program to work.
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