Chapter 1101 - 824: Sect Guard Senior Sister Returns

This question isn’t difficult, but it’s mentally exhausting to think about, especially for a student who has just finished a thesis proposal presentation.

Senior Sister Bun Head made a great effort to recall and answered with several titles and years, and also summarized the general content of these articles in a few sentences.

"Alright, alright, I understand, we don’t have much time."

Bi Yanling, however, waved her hand and directly moved on to the next question.

"Second," Bi Yanling glanced at the printed draft in her hand, "your mapping of the emotional regulation model, how do you ensure your coding isn’t a subjective projection of your own? You said you conducted an inter-coder reliability check, but that only proves you and your coder agree, it doesn’t prove your coding is correct."

Senior Sister Bun Head took a deep breath, disconnecting her thoughts from the previous question and turning to the current topic.

"The design of the coding manual was translated and adapted based on the operational definitions in the original Gross theory..."

"Tsk, still the same old problem." Bi Yanling interrupted again.

She leaned back: "Gross’s theory is directed at Western populations. You translated it into Chinese and then just used it?"

The students at the scene who were slightly knowledgeable all couldn’t help but widen their eyes upon hearing this.

Did Bi Yanling mean that the student on stage needs to conduct localization research before using Western theories?

Such an amount of work is enough to publish an article on its own, maybe even at a core level.

Heavily adopting Western psychology theoretical foundations is unavoidable for students because psychology started relatively late domestically, and the theoretical foundations are basically all in Europe and America, even in Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Studies on the localization of Western theories are generally Ph.D. level series topics, or even teacher-level topics.

If everyone follows this standard, how many psychology masters, even nationwide, can graduate?

The young teacher sitting next to Bi Yanling couldn’t help but turn to look at her, coughing once but still didn’t speak; Teacher Waterpot and Teacher Hot Cloth didn’t even raise their heads.

In a sense, this kind of question is also to test the student’s understanding of the theoretical foundation in their proposal; as long as they can provide their own understanding, points won’t actually be deducted from the paper because "Western theories aren’t localized."

"..." Senior Sister Bun Head took a deep breath and slightly organized her language.

"Thank you for the question, teacher... My study involves customer service dialogue text, and the content of the text does not have a strict sense of Eastern or Western cultural context; it’s purely a commercial service scenario."

"Regarding the issue of cultural adaptation, it actually does not involve cross-cultural comparison in this situation—"

"But the model is Western," Bi Yanling interrupted Senior Sister Bun Head again for the umpteenth time, "the algorithm is Western, the framework is Western. You’re using a set of Western tools from start to finish to analyze Chinese data. Are you sure your results can reflect the true psychological characteristics of Chinese users?"

This follow-up question was a bit beyond the scope.

Teacher Hot Cloth couldn’t help but look up in Bi Yanling’s direction.

However, he didn’t speak either, as after all, Bi Yanling was the teacher.

"...Thank you for the question, teacher. Regarding this aspect, I may not have considered it before."

Senior Sister Bun Head stood on the stage, thinking for a full three breaths, and in the end could only use generalized language to deal with this over-extended question.

"Regarding this question, I will further elaborate on the adaptability of the model in future research. Thank you for pointing it out, teacher..."

But Bi Yanling didn’t let her off.

"Let me be more direct," Bi Yanling said, putting away the smile on her face.

"What problem do you intend to solve with this research of yours? You’re using algorithms, a model, a prediction mechanism—but these things seem more like something done by the information major, not psychology."

"It’s true that many problems in our field now involve interdisciplinary issues, and statistical analysis and such are very important, but we can’t just lean completely towards engineering because of this trend, right?"

Bi Yanling slapped the printed draft on the table: "If your thesis proposal passes, and then during your research you spend several months running data and adjusting parameters, what contribution do you think the results will make to the theoretical development of psychology?"

Senior Sister Bun Head took a deep breath: "Teacher, my research framework is constructed based on the theoretical model of emotional psychology—"

"Which theory?"

"...Gross’s process model of emotion regulation." This question theoretically didn’t need to be answered again, as it’s already been mentioned in the printed draft, PPT presentation, and the previous Q&A.

"How many years has Gross’s theory been discussed?" Bi Yanling said, "You added an algorithm shell to it and called it new?"

The air in the classroom seemed compressed.

The two young teachers and Teacher Hot Cloth exchanged glances and looked towards Teacher Waterpot together.

Senior Sister Bun Head stood behind the presentation podium, her finger joints slightly pale, her throat starting to tense up.

"Teacher Bi," she said, "I can explain the integration logic of this research on the theoretical and algorithm application levels—"

"You’ve explained it." Bi Yanling said, "I understood. But I don’t think your logic is solid."

Bi Yanling leaned back: "If I were your advisor, I would suggest you change to a topic with a stronger psychological foundation, not something that’s easily turned into a ’wrap-around algorithm.’ Of course, that’s just my suggestion, you can discuss it with your advisor."