Modelling subjectivity and uncertainty in “real world” settings

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017-03

Authors

Ciaunica, Anna (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Constructivist Foundations

Vol. 12 No. 2

Pages: 184-185

ISSN: 1782-348X

Publisher: Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Other information

Abstract (EN): TOpen peer commentary on the article “Modeling Subjects’ Experience While Modeling the Experimental Design: A Mild-Neurophenomenology-Inspired Approach in the Piloting Phase” by Constanza Baquedano & Catalina Fabar. Upshot: The authors show in their pilots how open it is to participants not to obey the instructions during an experiment. Their findings leave us to choose between two options: either we (a) accept that subjective confounds are inevitable and stronger than we think, but in this case, why should we continue trying to measure subjective experience?; or (b) strive at designing better experiments in order to control for these fluctuations. I will argue for option (b) and propose an alternative model to go beyond the first- and third-person data gap, namely “predictive processing.”

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Disponível em: https://constructivist.info/12/2/184.ciaunica