The Negligence in a Study: It’s OK if ‘My Brain Made Me Do It’

In this post, I want to tell a little story about how a study can be negligent, and due to that negligence assert conclusions that should not be made. That study is titled “It’s OK if ‘my brain made me do it’: People’s intuitions about free will and neuroscientific prediction” byEddy Nahmias, Jason Shepard, and Shane Reuter (2013).

This is not to say the study has no merit at all,or that some conclusion made did not have merit, only that there is a particular conclusion made that is based on...