It can be recorded as verbal behavior to be explained, but analyzing the data that you get this way is labor-intensive. So researchers usually use techniques that produce data which is easier to analyze (and get a paper out of).
So, if you’ve got a single subject (yourself), and the goal is not to write a paper but to become more rational (which is labor-intensive anyway), introspection is legitimate?
No. As far as I know, introspection is a good way to convince yourself that you have become more rational, and not a good way to learn things or become more rational.
Someone http://twitter.com/mogwai_poet recently tweeted about “effort shock”—discovering the amount of effort to accomplish something worthwhile, analogous to sticker shock.
Going to school and getting a degree and going into research and writing some bad papers in order to keep your job long enough to write some good papers might be the kind of effort necessary to improve the state of the art in human rationality—though I’d love to hear about faster ways.
So, if you’ve got a single subject (yourself), and the goal is not to write a paper but to become more rational (which is labor-intensive anyway), introspection is legitimate?
No. As far as I know, introspection is a good way to convince yourself that you have become more rational, and not a good way to learn things or become more rational.
Someone http://twitter.com/mogwai_poet recently tweeted about “effort shock”—discovering the amount of effort to accomplish something worthwhile, analogous to sticker shock.
Going to school and getting a degree and going into research and writing some bad papers in order to keep your job long enough to write some good papers might be the kind of effort necessary to improve the state of the art in human rationality—though I’d love to hear about faster ways.