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Short piece w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social addressing errors on the role of scientific models related also to AI misuse seen everywhere not just psychology: On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

I am still taking a break from here, so back later for more. ☺️ 2/

And so on this point we list 5 points that are important to understand the role of models in cognitive scientific theory: 1️⃣ models are not of a single type 4/

Another is: 2️⃣ "numerical point prediction is not something we can nor should expect" from our models at all! Something that I think is completely lost on so many people sadly, especially in modern artificial intelligence hype rhetoric. 5/

3️⃣ "cognitive capacities are the main target of theorising" > vision, categorisation, navigation, and so on, are not phenomena in a straightforward way. Capacities can be meaningfully detached from individual phenomena, if by phenomenon we mean observations, datasets, or psychological effects. 6/