[HN Gopher] Theoretical modeling for cognitive science and psych...
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       Theoretical modeling for cognitive science and psychology
        
       Author : Schiphol
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-09-04 10:46 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (computationalcognitivescience.github.io)
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       | _Nat_ wrote:
       | Neat! Looks like it's mostly just getting started and mostly
       | empty so far.
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       | The premise is refreshing though -- they're pretty upfront about
       | the huge problems in prior practice, e.g. (https://computationalc
       | ognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/par...):
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       | > These days it is probably not controversial to say that NHST
       | [null hypothesis significance testing] has been psychology's
       | hammer that made cognition and behaviour look like a nail.
       | Fervent use of this hammer, which took center stage in the
       | 'replication crisis', has most certainly contributed to a
       | relative [neglect of solid theory building in psychological
       | science](https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/psychological-
       | scienc...). Why? Well, a hammer (especially in the form of NHST)
       | is not a suitable tool for sculpting theoretical models.
       | 
       | , and they seem to be explaining methods that employ modeling,
       | like pretty much all STEM fields use.
       | 
       | Looks like a great opportunity for Psychology (and probably other
       | similar fields too) to progress beyond prior practice.
        
         | timkam wrote:
         | Still, one also must acknowledge that the hammer of using
         | simple formal models to describe human decision-making has led
         | to a crisis as well (in microeconomic theory). So it's best to
         | do it like Tversky and Kahneman and build formal models that
         | are then empirically tested.
        
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