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not science until it can be reproduced. and since this is a psychological study...

• rpmisms 7y ago
  Edited, thanks.
• jevgeni 7y ago
  By that logic, for example, math and some quantum physics are not science. This distinction is useless.
  • NotAnEconomist 7y ago
    That's.... true? Math isn't a science, and some quantum physics is regularly chided for being more philosophy than science, because it doesn't make testable predictions. The distinction seems useful.
• MagnumPIG 7y ago
  Not all branches of psychology are the same. Social psychology is generally pretty rigorous. For example you can calculate the average attitude and this will be consistently reproducible, assuming your methodology isn't too flawed. Of course there was a particularly public reproduction crisis, but the problem is endemic to academia as a whole, if perhaps in lower numbers (this remains to be seen).