psychology is a science
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>psychology is a science
Define Science.
>>8201198
Why are you people so obsessed with shitting on other fields?
>>8201199
>Define Science.
repeatable experiments
>>8201200
Because they suck at life.
>mfw brainlets still believe in IQ
>>8201202
Basically this. Psychology is so full of horeshit like it pushes something like "x is 20% more likely to do this than y" as irrefutable fact, conveniently ignoring selection bias in their samples.
>>8201217
To be fair, lots of those sorts of statement are from the media, rather than the psychologists themselves. If you compare media reports of psychological studies with the actual studies themselves, there are often huge and significant differences. Psychologists are now starting to receive media training on how to prepare a press brief, so that this sort of thing doesn't happen so often. Also, every good psychologist is aware of the biases within their samples, and what the limitations of their results are.
>>8201299
>"""good""" psychologists
>#notallpsychologists
>>8201198
isn't psychology like.. the science of subjectivity?
in that case, yes it were a science, but eliminating variables would be insanely hard, because individuals.
I think psychology did a great job with the discovery of cognitive biases.
The rest is a bit meh.
>>8201400
Is this a meta joke about cognitive biases?
>>8201217
Shocker, psychological processes are probabilistic.
>>8201719
It is now
>>8201723
It's not, nigger
>>8201198
Then what about medical psychology and neuropsychology?
>>8201212
t. low IQ brainlet
