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This reply is to anyone reading this that takes the parent post seriously - the scientific method is the best tool we have for gaining knowledge, and it is effe
by qume 11y ago
This reply is to anyone reading this that takes the parent post seriously - the scientific method is the best tool we have for gaining knowledge, and it is effective especially with difficult subject matter such as psychology. Psychology isn't just science, it's difficult science.
BTW the only statistics I know are what I was forced to learn studying psych (although I was a computer science major, which required none)
- kwhitefoot 11y agoHow can you do computer science without any stats? Don't you study machine learning?
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoMany of us are kind of old. Machine learning wasn't much of a thing in the 90s, and I think has only become popular in the last few years.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoStudying human behavior is just very difficult for any science (psychology is just at the fore). E.g. in programming languages, there are researchers that are trying to figure out how to empirically study human performance in relation to various programming features. It is quite difficult to get meaningful results, and experiments are expensive (you can't just put people in a box for later use!). No wonder most PL researchers focus on machine performance and theory...it is just easier that way.