Building a discrimination repertoire
- Learning to make up tacts will help you spot it occurring elsewhere, give you a discrimination and tacting repertoire to point it out yourself
- See: Chambers book, Neuroskeptic 9 circles of hell
Can you discriminate their hypothesis, RQ, and goals?
- Description, prediction, influence — or a mushy none-of-the-above?
Bullshit
- Identifying claims that are not even attempting to be truthful
Goals
- Description, prediction, influence
- Explananda vs explanantia, circular reasoning
Subjunctive vs. indicative theory
Would It Be Tight
- Burden of proof: what evidence do the authors provide that their theory would not merely be tight?
In a world fallacy
- Theories that only work under unstated ideal conditions
Logical arguments
- Sound and valid arguments
- Failure to consider alternative explanations
- Affirmation of the consequent
- Auxiliary hypotheses
Motte and Bailey arguments
- Strategic retreat to defensible positions when stronger claims are challenged
(Strategic) ambiguity
- General claims require generalised effects
Not even wrong claims
- What is your estimand, counterfactuals
Lego science
- Mechanistic assembly of findings without theoretical coherence
Ignorance systems
- Research areas sustained by not asking certain questions