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It will be interesting when they realize that it's not a "crisis", but that it is what it is and that psychological phenomenon are just too variable (in time an
by raverbashing 5y ago
It will be interesting when they realize that it's not a "crisis", but that it is what it is and that psychological phenomenon are just too variable (in time and space) to be reproduced.
- eterevsky 5y agoStatistics has plenty of tools for describing variable phenomena.
- raverbashing 5y agoYes, for periodic or well-behaved phenomena. But for most cases you can't summarize human behaviour into one or two variables.
- TotempaaltJ 5y agoThis seems like a strawman--I don't think any part of behavioural science/psychology is claiming to be able to do this.
- dagw 5y agoBut for most cases you can't summarize human behaviour into one or two variables. And statistics is a useful tool separate those cases from the few cases where you actually can.
- amatic 5y agoThe whole point of statistics is dealing with those variable phenomena in psychology. Variability is the starting assumption. IMO, we need to find new methods of discovering non-variable and reproducibe phenomena. I like the theory that goals are relatively constant while means (behavior) are variable. The problem is to discover the goals.
- tremon 5y agoI think that the goals you describe are already discovered, they're just used in a different field of "study": marketing.