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I'm just having trouble with "almost always" Any psychologist worth their salt knows better than to claim any interpretation of experimental results as unassai
by walleeee 5y ago
I'm just having trouble with "almost always"
Any psychologist worth their salt knows better than to claim any interpretation of experimental results as unassailable
Pop science is another story (literally) but the profs I've had the privilege of studying under spent a lot of time warning us against the shoddy reasoning you describe
Psychology has a lot of bullshit in its orbit but the discipline as taught in quality departments is just that, disciplined
- scoofy 5y agoI don't mean to impugn the study of psychology in the slightest. Only that i find it maddening that obviously unfalsifiable results are taught as though they can teach us anything about human behavior. I hope you are right and I am wrong, I was taught these experiments this way at a good school, i can only hope that is more uncommon than i think it is.
- walleeee 5y agoFair enough- and agreed. I hope so too.