A smart psychologist notices something about how his mind works. He suspects that it is a fairly universal thing. Unfortunately in modern times that is not nearly enough to get attention. So he does some preliminary research, bla bla, statistical analysis, bla. Then he’s like, ha, I was right, and everyone else is like, ha, that’s a cool idea.
I don’t care about the studies. Empiricism in psychology doesn’t actually work. Cf. parapsychology. Studies are social excuses to popularize ideas. Verbal overshadowing is obviously a thing. It’s a concept/hypothesis people should know about. Therefore I tacitly endorse posts popularizing it, even though this institution of using shoddy social science studies as excuses is an evil one.
(One thing we can do is start with observations like “introspection doesn’t work too well” and reason backwards from that to the sorts of mental structures that would give rise to such a failure. That’s what e.g. Robin Hanson does.)
A smart psychologist notices something about how his mind works. He suspects that it is a fairly universal thing. Unfortunately in modern times that is not nearly enough to get attention. So he does some preliminary research, bla bla, statistical analysis, bla. Then he’s like, ha, I was right, and everyone else is like, ha, that’s a cool idea.
I don’t care about the studies. Empiricism in psychology doesn’t actually work. Cf. parapsychology. Studies are social excuses to popularize ideas. Verbal overshadowing is obviously a thing. It’s a concept/hypothesis people should know about. Therefore I tacitly endorse posts popularizing it, even though this institution of using shoddy social science studies as excuses is an evil one.
Introspection doesn’t work too well either. Where does that leave us?
(One thing we can do is start with observations like “introspection doesn’t work too well” and reason backwards from that to the sorts of mental structures that would give rise to such a failure. That’s what e.g. Robin Hanson does.)