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Sep. 24th, 2007 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerI wrote "...experimentation without theory is dumb, as theory without experimentation is blind."
Professor wrote back, "Consider word choice: dumb."
Clearly, putting in anything above literals in a science paper is considered Bad Form.
Of course, writing anything in a paper for me is Bad Form as I apparently cannot write scientific papers to save my life. And I completely disagree with the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, which isn't helping matters either. This is because most people who study cog sci think that Behaviorism is icky and wrong. Some reasons are valid, some are extraordinarily stupid.
One of the problems with behaviorism - actually, radical behaviorism, but anyway - is call the "one too many" problem. The idea is that if you sit someone down in front of a Rembrandt - the stimulus - they can have any number of responses, from "Beautiful." to "Dutch" to "Doesn't go with the wallpaper."
Then it hit me - I need to use the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle! Yeah, like cog sci isn't interdisciplinary enough!
Professor wrote back, "Consider word choice: dumb."
Clearly, putting in anything above literals in a science paper is considered Bad Form.
Of course, writing anything in a paper for me is Bad Form as I apparently cannot write scientific papers to save my life. And I completely disagree with the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, which isn't helping matters either. This is because most people who study cog sci think that Behaviorism is icky and wrong. Some reasons are valid, some are extraordinarily stupid.
One of the problems with behaviorism - actually, radical behaviorism, but anyway - is call the "one too many" problem. The idea is that if you sit someone down in front of a Rembrandt - the stimulus - they can have any number of responses, from "Beautiful." to "Dutch" to "Doesn't go with the wallpaper."
Then it hit me - I need to use the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle! Yeah, like cog sci isn't interdisciplinary enough!
