@NicoleCRust @jonny ? a better way to put this: I was a bit surprised by this paper given the authors because it slightly reads ‘piecemeal dustbowel empiricism didn’t work lets do dustbowl empiricism harder’. I take the fundamental problem of psych. to be the inherent flexibility of human responding. Change the context slightly, get a different response. So there’s gazillions of little paradigms that devolved into ‘it depends’. What we haven’t learned is what a meaningful theory is given that.