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Research psychologists are at the forefront of science, the scientific method, and statistical methods. Haven't you ever wondered why all of these articles by
by idm 11y ago
Research psychologists are at the forefront of science, the scientific method, and statistical methods.
Haven't you ever wondered why all of these articles by psychologists have been questing the very fundamentals of the way science is practiced? Psychology, as a field, is our day's premiere example of a science that examines itself. The issues with reproducibility are being illuminated and confronted by - who else? - psychologists.
You're wrong on virtually every count. The scientific method is the primary philosophy practiced by psychologists. I would encourage you to read more before making easily falsified statements like "psychology is ... fundamentally outside the scope of the scientific method."
- mattkrause 11y agoTo add some specifics to this pile-on: - The classical example of a randomized experiment is a perception/psychophysics experiment: the Lady Tasting Tea. This introduced the idea of a null hypothesis as well as Fisher's exact test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea - Visual and auditory experiments more or less invented signal detection theory and used it to probe visual and auditory processing. Those ROC curves everyone loves predate "machine learning" by decades. - A lot of the fancy hierarchical and Bayesian modeling work have come from psychologists and social scientists (e.g., Andrew Gelman)