We didn't just roll over. Here was my reply to BMJ:
No comment. :speechless:
PS I know the reviewer's name, and have chosen not to disclose it, as I think its more powerful as it stands - a ridiculous non-scholarly diatribe...
We submitted an earlier version of this paper to BMJ. It did not include as much reanalysis detail, it mainly focused on the recovery data and the...
For anyone who just glazes over when Type I and Type II errors are mentioned, a good way to remember the difference is the story of the boy who...
Yes, I think this is a good point. It's the reason why clinical trials are supposed to have a single primary outcome measure. So that you can't...
I would have thought his connections with the authors and with the project would need to be disclosed, and would disqualify him. But then the...
The positions are usually exhaustive. This example from eyewitness testimony research: Does information presented after an event get...
I would agree. In fact, there's been a movement in Psychology recently to dispense with the traditional logic of null hypothesis testing (is the...
Yes, that's true. Its not fear in the sense of a classically conditioned response (phobia). Its more like avoidant behaviour, where the basis for...
I don't know any statistics, but I read a lot of studies of FND when writing the psychogenic illness paper with Tony Ward, and "resistance to a...
@Cheshire's argument is much stronger. Also "boom and bust" behaviour is not consistent with a fear model. People who have an intense fear of...
Yes, I suppose you might argue that people with a spider phobia have accepted that their fear is unreasonable and that it is getting in the way of...
No, the argument @Jonathan Edwards was making is the opposite - he's interested in the fact that people actually DID sign up for the PACE study....
I'm not as sure as others of this argument. So for example, there are people with a pathological fear of spiders, sometimes so bad they avoid...
Yes, if the hypotheses had been well supported, that would have provided positive support for the model. No question. It just doesn't work the...
I think we used "model" in the paper. Putting "hypothetical" in front would be confusing, for the very reasons we've been talking about there. It...
Do you think the idea unworthy of the title theory? Do you prefer model, idea, just plain framework, or something else? I'm happy to go with...
No, the theory and the hypothesis are two different things. The theory - the theoretical framework which was used to derive the predictions with...
I have managed to restrain myself from direct engagement so far, but I (perhaps impulsively) waded in to a correct a claim this guy made about...
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