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IQ itself is not even close to science in the sense of physics, chemistry, or even biology. Psychology as a whole is disreputable, literally half its studies f
by llamaz 8y ago
IQ itself is not even close to science in the sense of physics, chemistry, or even biology.
Psychology as a whole is disreputable, literally half its studies fail to replicate. You might as well flip a coin.
Sure, IQ is the best that we have. But it's terrible.
- barry-cotter 8y agoIQ and the rest of psychometrics replicates, as does personality psychology. Massive sample sizes, people strongly motivated to get things right and generations of intelligent people trying to prove them wrong, many of whom have gone into psychometrics themselves have ensured that psychometrics has very sound backing. Saying psychology as a whole is disreputable is just anti-intellectual know nothingism. The divide between psychophysics (the study of perception) and neuroscience is as great as that between social psychology and sociology, small. Trying to denounce all of psychology by association with social psychology just betrays ignorance. The same applies to many, many papers in the exact sciences. > In cancer science, many “discoveries” don’t hold up > During a decade as head of global cancer research at Amgen, C. Glenn Begley identified 53" landmark" publications--papers in top journals, from reputable labs--for his team to reproduce. Begley sought to double-check the findings before trying to build on them for drug development. Result: 47 of the 53 could not be replicated. He described his findings in a commentary piece published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. http://medicalexposedownloads.com/PDF/Cancer%20science%20Research%20found%20to%20be%20fraudulent.pdf http://medicalexposedownloads.com/PDF/Cancer%20science%20Res...
- llamaz 8y agohttps://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/half-the-time--psychology-results-not-reproducible--study-65117 https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/half-the-time--ps...