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If "Demographic A has higher suicide rates than demographic B" is not falsifiable, then I'm not sure what is.
by PhasmaFelis 4y ago
If "Demographic A has higher suicide rates than demographic B" is not falsifiable, then I'm not sure what is.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoWe can’t interview demographic A after they are gone.
- whimsicalism 4y agoPretty surprising a research scientist doesn't know what falsifiability is.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoWell, in general falsifiability and its application to psychology is up for debate because it is generally unethical/impossible to run single variable control experiments on humans :) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00621/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0062...
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoIrrelevant in this case. You don't need a double-blind experiment to determine suicide rates, as I already said.
- whimsicalism 4y agoYou don't need to have single variable control to make inferences about differences between population subgroups, only to infer causality. We certainly know that people who identify as transgender are at higher risk of suicide than the broader population.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoExactly, I was poking at the confidence expressed by the OP that inferred causality. Having more nuance and expressing less confidence would be closer to reality.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoI...what? If you find someone hanging from a noose with no sign of force or a struggle, you don't need an interview to know what happened. What are you even trying to do, here?