On 2017 Jun 21, Lydia Maniatis commented:

I don't get it; are citations like these valid? They seem to be doing most of the heavy lifting.

"The finger spread and beauty judgement were recorded by our web app, emotiontracker.com (A.A.B., L. Vale, and D.G.P., unpublished data).

As previous work has shown (A.A.B., L. Vale, and D.G.P., unpublished data), continuous pleasure ratings are well fit by a simple model, refined here ((Equation 1), (Equation 2) ; (Equation 3) and Figure 1B). The model supposes..."

What gives the model assumptions their credibility? Are we supposed to take the claims on faith?

On 2017 Jun 21, Lydia Maniatis commented:

I don't get it; are citations like these valid? They seem to be doing most of the heavy lifting.

"The finger spread and beauty judgement were recorded by our web app, emotiontracker.com (A.A.B., L. Vale, and D.G.P., unpublished data).

As previous work has shown (A.A.B., L. Vale, and D.G.P., unpublished data), continuous pleasure ratings are well fit by a simple model, refined here ((Equation 1), (Equation 2) ; (Equation 3) and Figure 1B). The model supposes..."

What gives the model assumptions their credibility? Are we supposed to take the claims on faith?