A lot of reforms in psych science in the last decade have focused on improving statistical practices (and that's great). But, as the many of us who have re-analyzed a lot of data can tell you: statistics really cannot help you much when your measures are problematic or invalid.
ah yes great idea andré. just leave all the paperwork to the night before. you couldn’t understand any of it before, i’m sure it will all make sense at 4am when you’re terrified tho.
Every non-utilitarian should have to be precise about how much suffering they are willing to impose on others to ensure a promise is kept, and every utilitarian should be forced to state their actual exchange rate between aggregate headaches and murder.
Ok, so, how do you reply to the fact that as social scientists we claim that our object of study is much more complex than inert matter, but our modelling techniques are way simpler?
@Helenreflects as a kid, when we played football in the playground the teams were always whites vs nonwhites (looking back- yikes, but we were children). being in the uk, my class had no frame of reference for latinos and decided that i could choose whichever team i wanted on the day