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Short piece w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social addressing errors on the role of scientific models related also to AI misuse seen everywhere not just psychology: On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

I am still taking a break from here, so back later for more. ☺️ 2/

I'm back! Our paper takes another that mischaracterises our views on models, but isn't alone, to highlight our view, which is that: > the scramble for so-called prediction that causes “theories in psychological science [to] be vague, weak, and lacking in parsimony” doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3/

And so on this point we list 5 points that are important to understand the role of models in cognitive scientific theory: 1️⃣ models are not of a single type 4/

3️⃣ "cognitive capacities are the main target of theorising" > vision, categorisation, navigation, and so on, are not phenomena in a straightforward way. Capacities can be meaningfully detached from individual phenomena, if by phenomenon we mean observations, datasets, or psychological effects. 6/

Another important aspect many confuse or forget is how we get rid of models, things like falsification etc. But: 4️⃣ "metatheoretical calculi in practice are messy" zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10...

Finally: 5️⃣ models are not (of the) data! > This confusion [of] map and territory, theory and observations, [is at the root of] damaging issues in contemporary theorising, especially when under the influence of the technology industry’s logic doi.org/10.5281/zeno...