I tried to clarify that my comment was a response to the claim as presented in the title of the press release (i.e., that reproducibility does not equate to truth does not require empirical demonstration). It wasn’t meant to be a comment on the actual study which is fascinating
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Replying to @briandavidearp @djnavarro and
I think an important issue here is that this notion/criticism: "but this is obviously true" is a very common one used to reject papers ESPECIALLY MODELLING WORK from prestigious journals. So you will always receive a reaction if you say this to modellers even if in good faith.
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Replying to @o_guest @briandavidearp and
The numbers of times people (reviewers, etc.) have said of models' results "we all know this" and "this is obviously true" when nothing of the sort is neither a mainstream view nor published is very high — hilarious and painful.
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Replying to @o_guest @briandavidearp and
It reminds me of how right wing people and especially fascists talk about modern art. Ridiculously painful rhetoric.
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Replying to @o_guest @briandavidearp and
Yes, characterising modelled results as trivialities, obviousness, truisms... seems to be the pastime of many researchers. They seem to believe that intuition is a more reliable manner to elaborate scientific conclusions and that psychol. processes are simple linear operations.
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Replying to @twitemp1 @briandavidearp and
The same reply to all the above: If you could have done it, why didn't you?
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Replying to @VandekerckhoveJ @o_guest and
Esther Mondragón Retweeted Esther Mondragón
Good one! Here is another, not minehttps://twitter.com/twitemp1/status/1129806254442975233?s=20 …
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Replying to @twitemp1 @VandekerckhoveJ and
Reminds me of the analytic/synthetic distinction: Analytic a priori -> it is that way because it is Synthetic a priori -> it is that way because it must be
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Maybe we should start saying "if you thought this why didn't you pre-register it?" 


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