Why do "imaginable-that-it-can-happen because it is imaginable-that-it-could-happen" models seem so popular? My answer: desperation. To wit:
We have more than one "imaginable-that-it-can-happen because it is imaginable-that-it-could-happen" type of model (including some thrown-in-as-needed algorithms -- just a few (so, ok??)). What happened to the environment?; what happened to ecology and ecological validity (not to mention test-ability: hypotheses to be proven or disproven)?? Lordy. Computer simulations will not "do" as proof of a partial and inherently limited set of strange explanations. Examples: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312425067_A_narrative_in_three_acts_Using_combinations_of_image_schemas_to_model_events
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Hi Brad:
I understand your desperation. Models cannot replace experiments nor can they prove that particular mechanisms are at work in a given situation, especially in complex biological processes.
Dear Luis Miguel Constantino
The desperation I was speaking of is that in the field of psychology. It was "my answer" to why there are so many terrible models ("imaginable-that-it-can-happen because it is imaginable-that-it-could-happen" models).
The real answers lie with basic (necessary !!) assumptions from Biology (for human behavior). Seeing those more and more true, or repeatedly very true, and in actual observations.
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