[FRIAM] Re Rant

[Roger Critchlow]

Sorry, I've been overwhelmed with household tasks lately.

I guess I was mostly entranced by the title of the blog post, baldly
asserting that thinking leads to actions.  Does an unexamined inner life
lead to bad science?   Gelman is working hard to come up with a generous
explanation for why social scientists do so much crappy science and get all
defensive when called on it.  Now Nick admits that rooting out the biases
that lead scientists into errors and failures to acknowledge errors is a
good thing, and he fails to rise to the bait dangled by the title.  So
maybe talking as if inner life precedes public actions, like talking as if
electrons had desires which were satisfied when chemical bonds were formed,
isn't entirely forbidden.

And I didn't mean to disparage Frank's dialogue, but just calling it a post
seemed weak.  It reminded me of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief
World Systems, but it needs more chapters.

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On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:57 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Frank has been unfairly accused.  His was an Anti-Rant Quip.
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> The material Roger cites doesn’t obviously relate  (for me) to Frank’s and
> my standing argument about the efficacy of inner life.  But its themes,
> continuity and anti-determinism, are Peirceian themes.  And my respect for
> Roger is such that I know that he don’t never say somethin’ for nothin’.
> So, can somebody explicate?  Perhaps even Roger?
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> NIck
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank
> Wimberly
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:20 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] a problem in how we think, not just in how we act
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> Rant??
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> I am a proponent, in human affairs, of both/and rather than either/or
> propositions.  In math I use the law of the excluded middle, however.
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> Frank
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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 10:08 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
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> It's funny that this should show up twice on my desktop the same day as
> Frank's rant.
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> https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania
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