Don't shoot the messenger.

Don't Shoot the Messenger: Still No Evidence That Video-Game Experience Is Related to Cognitive Abilities-A Reply to Green et al. (2017).

Green et al. (2017) raise two broad concerns with our two studies (Unsworth et al., 2015) showing little association between self-reported video-game experience and cognitive abilities: (a) Our analyses assumed linear gaming-cognition relationships and ignored possible confounding associations among different video-game genres, and (b) the video-game experience questionnaires were problematic a...

Measuring variability in early child language: don't shoot the messenger.

Feldman et al. criticize the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) as having too much variability, too little stability, and insufficient ability to predict early language delay. We present data showing that these characteristics of the CDI are authentic reflections of individual differences in early language development rather than measurement deficiencies. We also respond to ...

Maximum Entropy Production as an Inference Algorithm that Translates Physical Assumptions into Macroscopic Predictions: Don't Shoot the Messenger

Is Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) a physical principle? In this paper I tentatively suggest it is not, on the basis that MEP is equivalent to Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) inference algorithm that passively translates physical assumptions into macroscopic predictions, as applied to non-equilibrium systems. MaxEnt itself has no physical content; disagreement between MaxEnt predictions and e...

Don't Shoot the Relative

A Closer Look at Iterative Foot Optimization and the Case against Parallelism

" How does she shoot? If you're examining a rifle to see if it killed a man, don't you have to have some idea how it shoots? " " I can assure you, sir, it has all the hallmarks of a rifle customized for maximum accuracy. " " Yes, but how does it shoot? "-Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact