OK, to clarify: I think that what you say Brad about theoretical psychologists also needing/benefiting from some empirical training is not in contradiction to my proposal. Moreover, I think the converse is true too: i.e., exp psych get some theoretical/formal/modeling training.
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Still, it is good to have more people who specialize in theory than we have at the moment (much too little compared to the masses trained in exp psych), and generally it is good for science to have *spread* of people with *different* types of expertise.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @annemscheel
Yes exactly. I'm not suggesting that they spend half-time on empirical work, just that they've had a chance to work with raw data, and thereby understand how the sausage is made. Otherwise I think one overweights small incidental findings and theories can be overfit.
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What I think is definitely not a good idea is having a rigid distinction between experimentalists and theoreticians, which seems in general agreement with your perspective.
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Where do you all see modelling fitting in to this dissociation of the field into complimentary parts? For me, it's definitely an activity somewhere in the middle, but for many empirical people it's seen as pointless or otherwise misunderstood.
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I think that's exactly why theory people need to have real experimental expertise, so that they know how to reach out effectively to those folks, and how to frame their models (e.g. minimize equations in pubs) so that the exp. folk want to read them.
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I've work with data gathered by others. I've gathered data myself but only once and for an online thing (http://rescience.science ), so I don't really count it TBH. I have been involved in the design of experiments but never very very closely.
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Replying to @o_guest @bradpwyble and
But I have no idea if you consider me (I consider myself a modeller) a theory person and if you think I have "real experimental expertise"?
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Replying to @o_guest @bradpwyble and
Most people have experimental experience in the way I use these words due to the way cogsci and psych are taught. Modellers seem to emerge despite not because of most programmes — because the focus seems to be almost always empirical.
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So unless my experiences are somehow outlier ones (which they may be I realise I'm in a very small minority of people within cog/psych) I believe it's already the case that experimental experience is a baseline experience all PhDs have.
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But maybe modellers are not who you are talking about, in which case I guess my points are moot. 
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Of course we also are speaking of modellers. How would you position yourself? As a (theoretical) computational modeler?
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