reviewer comments about cognitive modeling

[Lynne Reder]

Chris,

Have you seen the recent paper (just published) in Psych Review by 
Roberts & Pashler?
That paper is definitely anti-modeling and is a perfect starting 
point of issues to
address.  Much of what they say is reasonable--it is only the invited inference
that is not, viz., that it is better not to model than to model.

--Lynne

At 10:56 AM +0200 7/8/00, Christian Schunn wrote:
>Dieter Wallach and I are writing a paper addressing common 
>complaints about computational cognitive modeling (theoretical and 
>pragmatic). We would greatly appreciate any anecdotes or quotes that 
>you could provide from journal or conference reviews on this topic 
>(to demonstrate that these complaints exist in the world rather than 
>just in our heads and to document the relative frequency of the 
>complaint types). Obviously, the reviewer's (or editor's) identity 
>would have to be kept anonymous, but if you could identify the 
>journal (or conference) or at least the type of journal (psych, cog 
>sci, comp sci, etc), that would be great. To make things easier on 
>you, you can send us whole reviews, and we can find the relevant 
>bits.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-Chris
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>Christian Schunn
>Assistant Professor of Psychology
>George Mason University
>
>Currently visiting the University of Basel in Switzerland
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>Best contact method: schunn at gmu.edu
>Web: www.hfac.gmu.edu/~schunn
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