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> You've used the weasel words "associated with" which are common in psych studies. That's what psych studies do - they establish correlations. People are not
by bmm6o 16y ago
> You've used the weasel words "associated with" which are common in psych studies.
That's what psych studies do - they establish correlations. People are not crash-test dummies that can be produced identically in quantities and experimented on. Different people respond to experiences differently, but that doesn't mean you can't say that those experiences are generally harmful or generally beneficial.
Nobody claims that psychology has the predictive power of physics, but that doesn't mean it has nothing useful to say.
- xenophanes 16y ago> That's what psych studies do - they establish correlations. And that's why they are useless. Because correlation isn't causation. Or in other words, because "aggressiveness is correlated to GTA" is fully compatible with GTA reducing aggressiveness. Whenever correlation studies try to give conclusions, they are reliably compatible with the opposite of their conclusions, so they are just nonsense...