tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post2860299550474268531..comments2024-01-02T09:45:52.570-05:00Comments on Lost in Transcription Has Moved!!: Irony Alert: Marc Hauser on moral judgmentsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284995441818864226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post-39850863148919885622010-11-24T23:55:01.859-05:002010-11-24T23:55:01.859-05:00The stories that appeared in the Boston Globe seem...The stories that appeared in the Boston Globe seemed to me to cross the line from confirmation bias into actual falsification. Those stories also portrayed him as getting angry with people in the lab whenever they questioned results. Given the power structures in an academic lab, and the suggestions that this is a long-term pattern of behavior, I don't think that unethical is not completely off base.<br /><br />But, in general, I completely agree with you that an extremely elaborated confirmation bias is exactly what we are looking at in the Hauser case. I think it is a sort of perfect storm of extremes: he is extremely smart, extremely arrogant, extremely charismatic, and working on an extremely hard problem. I suspect that he is so deeply convinced of the correctness of his own ideas – and has received enough positive reinforcement – that I almost picture him discounting counterevidence as the subjects being wrong, rather than the theory.<br /><br />As Norma Desmond would say, "It's the monkeys that got small."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04284995441818864226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post-23928364741003614102010-11-24T23:01:10.658-05:002010-11-24T23:01:10.658-05:00He couldn't find his "asc" with both...He couldn't find his "asc" with both hands?<br /><br />BTW: I think Hauser is not so much unethical as he was, well, stuck in confirmation bias. Unless you know something about the man the rest of us don't, his commenting upon moral evolution is hardly ironic. In fact, his views may still be right, for all his lack of objectivity, although I do not think they are.John S. Wilkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04417266986565803683noreply@blogger.com