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Climate Science and Psychology are very different types of science. Linking intelligence and race is anti-science, not science. Climate science doesn't need c
by gilbetron 9y ago
Climate Science and Psychology are very different types of science. Linking intelligence and race is anti-science, not science. Climate science doesn't need consensus, because it is actual science (not on the level of physics or chemistry, but much closer than Psychology)
- quadrangle 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- gilbetron 9y agoSo am I downvoted because the downvoters believe race and intelligence is linked, or because we have some staunch Psychology defenders?
- gilbetron 9y agoSo just going to downvote and not try to engage? That's pretty anti-Hacker News. Feel free to actually, you know, present an argument if you disagree with me.
- grzm 9y agoRegardless of why members may have down voted your comment above, in my experience commenting on voting will attract downvotes because it's against the guidelines: > "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gilbetron 9y agoIndeed, but also: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." A downvote with no comment is a shallow dismissal.
- flukus 9y agoDown voted because you dismissed a whole discipline as not "actual science". It certainly has it's issues, the replicability problem is a stain on the whole discipline for instance, but in many ways it is a truer science than climate science is. Psychology is much more experiment driven than much of climate science due to the difficulty of creating planets to test with that allow us to isolate factors.
- gilbetron 9y agoDownvoted, but also older comments of mine on unrelated topics were downvoted. That is "shallow". I don't see how Psychology is truer science, mostly because of the ethics. I studied Psych a great deal in undergrad, and while it is experiment driven, it is no where near the "hardness" of climate science.
- kongojack 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence There is an entire scientific debate about it in the field of psychology. Claiming it is anti science is willful ignorance.