and nail down our results with more precision, not less
I disagree. For example, you can rule out Dual N-Back as a possible Intelligence Amplification intervention with less precision than Jaeggi used to repeatedly mis-prove it as one. Depends on what you mean by precision I suppose. If you mean more time, effort, people, and statistical significance then precision is not needed. If by precision, you just mean being more right… well, I agree, we should be more right.
Most bogus science is very precise: That’s why it looks stronger than it is. Poor methodology and experimental design will still allow someone to prove any correlation with p < 0.05 significance. If I want to disprove someone who published an incorrect result, should I have to expend more time, people, and resources than they used just to over-prove the counter-claim with “more precision”—even though their claim was never wrong due to “lack of precision” in the first place?
Calling for “more precision” is like calling for “more preparation”. It has 100% applause appeal and costs nothing for people to call for. But it costs people actually doing research a lot of time. When you advocate for smarter people to use “more precision”, you’re also advocating for smarter people to do “less research”… the extra precision comes from somewhere.
Are you actually in favor of smarter people doing less research than they currently do?
Let’s agree on the interpretation “we should be more right” and skip over the issues of time and costs.
Sometimes a published result can indeed be overturned by a small amount of Bayesian evidence. But that’s only possible if you also prove that your methodology was much more right than the original paper’s methodology. Right now I have no way of knowing that from your comments. If you add a critique of Jaeggi’s study and an explanation why your study was better, that will work for me.
Are you actually in favor of smarter people doing less research than they currently do?
Considering how much research, given the low levels of confidence warranted by its methodology, is essentially worthless, yes, I am willing to say without reservation that there is dead wood to cut away.
Upvoted; I think this is a good downvoting policy but hope that whoever uses it takes the time to point out what they perceive as empty rhetoric. (I think the habit of spouting such rhetoric is particularly poisonous and particularly easy to stop, making it rather worth the effort of correcting.)
Agreed. Better is better.
I disagree. For example, you can rule out Dual N-Back as a possible Intelligence Amplification intervention with less precision than Jaeggi used to repeatedly mis-prove it as one. Depends on what you mean by precision I suppose. If you mean more time, effort, people, and statistical significance then precision is not needed. If by precision, you just mean being more right… well, I agree, we should be more right.
Most bogus science is very precise: That’s why it looks stronger than it is. Poor methodology and experimental design will still allow someone to prove any correlation with p < 0.05 significance. If I want to disprove someone who published an incorrect result, should I have to expend more time, people, and resources than they used just to over-prove the counter-claim with “more precision”—even though their claim was never wrong due to “lack of precision” in the first place?
Calling for “more precision” is like calling for “more preparation”. It has 100% applause appeal and costs nothing for people to call for. But it costs people actually doing research a lot of time. When you advocate for smarter people to use “more precision”, you’re also advocating for smarter people to do “less research”… the extra precision comes from somewhere.
Are you actually in favor of smarter people doing less research than they currently do?
Let’s agree on the interpretation “we should be more right” and skip over the issues of time and costs.
Sometimes a published result can indeed be overturned by a small amount of Bayesian evidence. But that’s only possible if you also prove that your methodology was much more right than the original paper’s methodology. Right now I have no way of knowing that from your comments. If you add a critique of Jaeggi’s study and an explanation why your study was better, that will work for me.
Considering how much research, given the low levels of confidence warranted by its methodology, is essentially worthless, yes, I am willing to say without reservation that there is dead wood to cut away.
Downvoted for this piece of empty rhetoric.
Upvoted; I think this is a good downvoting policy but hope that whoever uses it takes the time to point out what they perceive as empty rhetoric. (I think the habit of spouting such rhetoric is particularly poisonous and particularly easy to stop, making it rather worth the effort of correcting.)