Hmmm not sure I buy this analogy but it could just be me having difficulty following analogies in general. I get sidetracked trying to work out the intended meaning. (e.g., you can make glass from sand. glass is pretty cool, no? there i lost the analogy altogether
)https://twitter.com/richarddmorey/status/1095269564064116737 …
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I think they don't know what they have. Imagine trying to work out a model of planetary motion if you had some kids' doodles in there is data, but didn't know (or insert unreliable data of your choice). Would be difficult. I don't think good theory can really clean that up.
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Personally, I think theory is not to explain data, but key phenomena that make up a field of study. When I asked social psychologists about what these phenomena are for social psych, the overlap in perspectives seems substantial (e.g. https://twitter.com/psforscher/status/1069730242401632257 …)
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I agree except that "phenomena" is already theory-laden; they are a weakly theoretical organization of data.
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Yes. As they should be in my view.
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sure, hence my view that theories organize data (I think we're saying something very similar to one another)
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But we use our intuitions to organize observations in ways that we cannot yet capture in formal theory, but we need it to build formal theory. Later we can clean things up. As Berna said, it takes substantial and cumulative work. Waiting for more data isn't needed, nor wise imho.
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In case we don't have confidence in the observations, though, there is a problem even with intuitive organization. There are kinds of systematicity needed in observation that, if lacking, impedes progress. That's where I see the current problem. The communication breakdown b/w >
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> say, Rich Shiffrin and others has to do with the fact (imo) that Rich is a careful systematic experimentalist as well as a successful theoretician. Much psychology relies on the work of others, though, and so building cultures of careful experimentation >
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