Where Predictive Modeling Goes Astray

1 · John Myles White · Jan. 27, 2017, 6:17 p.m.
I recently reread Yarkoni and Westfall’s in-progress paper, “Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning”. I like this paper even more than I liked their previous paper, but I think a few notes of caution should be raised about the ways in which a transition to predictive modeling could create problems that […]...