Comments on: Buried Treasure (part 2) http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Stephen M (Ethesis) http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-147067 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:32:31 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-147067 Economists found botulism spores in honey by studying SIDS and diet and data mining. They find a number of things. Economists found botulism spores in honey by studying SIDS and diet and data mining. They find a number of things.

]]> by: Varangy http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-147024 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:43:15 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-147024 <i>Hypothesis testing improved. Hypothesis formation, however, did not improve. Knowing how to do a t test and the philosophy behind it will not help you come up with new ideas.</i> Exactly! I have had the misfortune of taking a graduate degree and one of the most irritating aspects of it was the fetishism on hypothesis testing and rather intentional devaluation of hypothesis formation. This resulted in quite a few, extremely intelligent and creative (and subsequently frustrated) people being sidelined and passed over for their (relative) weaknesses in statistical methodology, while their unfairly devalued talents and insights clearly lay in what you call hypothesis formation. I always thought this was a tremendous waste of human capital. Hypothesis testing improved. Hypothesis formation, however, did not improve. Knowing how to do a t test and the philosophy behind it will not help you come up with new ideas.

Exactly! I have had the misfortune of taking a graduate degree and one of the most irritating aspects of it was the fetishism on hypothesis testing and rather intentional devaluation of hypothesis formation. This resulted in quite a few, extremely intelligent and creative (and subsequently frustrated) people being sidelined and passed over for their (relative) weaknesses in statistical methodology, while their unfairly devalued talents and insights clearly lay in what you call hypothesis formation. I always thought this was a tremendous waste of human capital.

]]> by: seth http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-146841 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:24:55 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-146841 Well, Rorschach tests haven't generated any new psychological ideas, as far as I know. But they may be the best possible answer for psychology, as you say. Well, Rorschach tests haven’t generated any new psychological ideas, as far as I know. But they may be the best possible answer for psychology, as you say.

]]> by: Aaron Blaisdell http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-146825 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:43:06 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/03/buried-treasure-part-2/#comment-146825 "There are no comparable procedures for psychology." What about the rorschach test? Granted, I had to stretch all the way to psychoanalytic theory to find an example. “There are no comparable procedures for psychology.”
What about the rorschach test? Granted, I had to stretch all the way to psychoanalytic theory to find an example.

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