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> The history of psychology research ... Research lobotomy... So, you've pretty much publicly announced that you're heavily clueless about what psychology is,
by vacri 11y ago
> The history of psychology research ... Research lobotomy...
So, you've pretty much publicly announced that you're heavily clueless about what psychology is, and are buying into that armchair critic opinion that it's a discredited arm of psychiatry.
Discussions on HN constantly revolve around psychology. How to negotiate for a better salary? Psychology. A/B testing? Psychology. How to give or take an interview effectively? Psychology. UX design and testing? Psychology. How to motivate yourself or others, or avoid procrastination? Psychology. Game theory? Psychology. And this is just the common discussions on the rather niche forum of HN. As I write this comment, the #1 article is "Dsxyliea", which is... psychology.
When you abuse psychology because of a brief, discredited and niche episode in its history, you're saying the equivalent of "web browsers are shit software, because IE on XP can't do SNI".
- harry8 11y agoOf course we talk about psychology, the questions remain interesting. Hacker news discussion does not pretend to be scientific research. Last time I looked a game theory it was a branch of mathematics. See how much utterly discredited nonsense has been popular in psychology over the last 100 years. But this year's fads are different? Evidence would convince me. Psychology clearly continues to have systemic problems with evidence. Power pose. Priming. Yeah. There's plenty...