A group of economists proposed a model for football on the assumption that each player was totally independent of any other. The committee unanimously rejected this proposal, supported in this decision by unanimously negative reviews from tennis researchers. And so he's pointing out these very sciency ways in which you could imagine an alien trying to understand human behavior. So sort of making fun of all the formal models in in classical economics. These are just formal models that make these assumptions that are just clearly not true.
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and model-building--appropriate for the state of the field? Or do these methods lead to a narrowing of vision, stifled creativity, and a lack of informed curiosity about the social world> David and Tamler discuss the strong methodological critique of psychology from two of its leading practitioners - Paul Rozin and Solomon Asch.
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