Here's an interesting summary of a recent digital event where some more theoretically minded psychologists contributed nuanced views around the issue of preregistration (as it might apply to analysis/modelling for example). https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/you-must-tug-that-thread-why-treating-preregistration-as-a-gold-standard-might-incentivize-poor-behavior/ … 7/n
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... and here's an interesting follow up from
@dstephenlindsay, editor of Psychological Science:https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/avoiding-nimitz-hill-with-more-than-a-little-red-book-summing-up-psprereg/ …2 replies 1 retweet 9 likesShow this thread -
It's good to hear some of the positions aired, IMO. But I still feel that modellers (such as contributors
@djnavarro,@richarddmorey,@IrisVanRooij) are being widely misunderstood. 8/n1 reply 4 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
... "misunderstood" is being charitable really, because it often seems as if the more nuanced points modellers make are systematically discounted. 9/n
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Rightly or wrongly it sometimes feels like a kind of ostracism, as if theorists with all their "ideas", "mechanisms" and "predictions" have something to be ashamed of. 10/n
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Modellers/theorists understand that the generation of multiple ideas and selection among them is *completely central* to the process of generating theories and hypotheses. 11/n
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In many circumstances, this is not remotely comparable to the issue of researcher degrees of freedom in the analysis of an experiment. 12/n
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@STWorg's summary mentions Einstein, and -although this sometimes seems like hyperbole - it's worth considering whether models with a scope and generality comparable to relativity could ever arise in Psychology.... 13/n2 replies 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread -
Who, to be frank, cares whether Einstein thought of a dozen, or two dozen alternative, wrong ideas before arriving at his key insights? It would be amazing if they popped into his head perfect and complete... 14/n
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I am not sure science would have benefitted from a record of all the half-formed thoughts that went into the process. It's hard enough to understand the final product. 15/n
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Honestly and from the bottom of my heart, thank you. This means a lot. The BS is getting ridiculous.
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Thanks. It is frustrating to see others (including yourself) who are not being properly listened to.
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