"surprising predictions" as a criterion for model selection

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For about a year now, I've been meaning to write Henkjan Honing to argue against the position he expresses on Computational modeling of music cognition: a case study on model selection.

I started reading the paper from the beginning, and saw that the source of this view is Roberts & Pashler - How Persuasive Is a Good Fit? A Comment on Theory Testing. This is Seth Roberts, the Berkeley psychologist who has done a lot of (and written about) self-experimentation. Here is his blog. Here is the LJ syndication I created.