nonequivalence of teleological & causal explanations in psychologyThe relation of teleological to causal explanations in psychology is examined. Nagel's claim that they are logically equivalent is rejected. Two arguments for their non鈥恊quivalence are considered: (i) the impossibility of specifying ...
Some references and discussions on the foundations of probability—not the math so much as its connection to the real world, including the claim that “Pr(aliens exist on Neptune that can rap battle) = .137” (54 comments) Props to the liberal anticommunists of the 1930s-1950s (54 commen...
His main claim is that questionable research practices would be much reduced if researchers would seek advice or collaborate with professional statisticians or methodologists. I thought it was refreshing to see it put so clearly. Maybe this is a claim that can be empirically tested. Anyhow, you ...
I interpreted…Galton to mean that there was a category broader than causation, namely correlation, of which causation was the only limit, and that this new conception of correlation brought psychology, anthropology, medicine and sociology in large part into the field of mathematical treatment. (fro...
Willusionists claim that recent developments in psychology and neuroscience demonstrate that consciousness is causally inefficient [Carruthers, 2007; Eagleman, 2012; Wegner, 2002]. In section 1, I show that willusionists provide two types of evidence: first, evidence that we do not always know the...
Aims Strong associations between marijuana use and initiation of hard drugs are cited in support of the claim that marijuana use per se increases youths' r... AR Morral,DF Mccaffrey,SM Paddock - 《Addiction》 被引量: 529发表: 2003年 Role of trans fatty acids in the nutritional regulation of...
Jurors need to decide whether the evidence in the case was caused by the accused's criminal action or by some other cause. This paper compares two computational models of casual inference: explanatory coherence and Bayesian networks. Both models can be applied to legal episodes such as the von...
In Experiment 1, a group of pre-, ea... WD Neys,D Everaerts - 《Journal of Experimental Child Psychology》 被引量: 68发表: 2008年 The suppression of Modus Ponens as a case of pragmatic preconditional reasoning The suppression of the Modus Ponens inference is described as a loss of ...
Remember that claim that early-childhood intervention increased later adult earnings by 42%? That was another case of selection bias (see also here), albeit a bit less blatant than what Ray did. It makes sense that, when a team of credentialed economists make an error, it’s a more subtl...
Actually, I’m guessing that biologists would be less interested in the point-by-point response and more in the claim that their conclusions “have been replicated independently in many subsequent studies from other reputable laboratories.” Talk is cheap; replications are real. And it’s my imp...