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To be fair, psychology is to science as astrology is to science. It’s been defrocked by the reproducibility crisis.
by valuearb 6y ago
To be fair, psychology is to science as astrology is to science. It’s been defrocked by the reproducibility crisis.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoThat doesn’t mean all of psychology is wrong or not useful. There’s some amazing things that have come out of it. We know more about how to help people process trauma and developed therapy techniques that help people live better lives. Yes, there is a lot of questionable research and getting objective, repeatable results is extremely difficult. People don’t reduce to numbers easily. At the same time, we shouldn’t throwing out the enormous amount of progress in the treatment of mental health in the last fifty years.
- dwaltrip 6y agoIt's not quite as bad as you are portraying.
- dang 6y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The reproducibility crisis is a thing, but there's no information here. Shallow dismissals that are also grandiose are particularly low-quality.
- mythrwy 6y agoYou are being down-voted and even reprimanded I have to voice my agreement. I also don't believe psychology is an actual science (in the proper sense of the term) and is indeed more akin to religion or even astrology. (Not that that religion and astrology are not sometimes useful, they can be, as can psychology, just that they are something besides a science).