The consistency fallacy and failures of theory embellishment

Frontiers in Psychology

Christopher H. Chatham¹ 

关键词: model comparison;    consistency fallacy;    accounting for data;    Bayes Theorem;    null prediction;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00965

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Trafimow (2013) rejects the notion that data can militate against a theory if the data is wholly irrelevant to the theory. This very reasonable-sounding argument may not hold in the important (and common) case where competing models are being compared. The underlying issues may be clarified by way of example.

【 授权许可】

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