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Psychology has many bad practices, and does have a certain amount of pseudo-science in its subdomains, but as a whole it isn't. The subject exists, and there ar
by tgv 3y ago
Psychology has many bad practices, and does have a certain amount of pseudo-science in its subdomains, but as a whole it isn't. The subject exists, and there are ways of (indirectly) measuring aspects of it.
> Pretty much all the “findings” that have been popularized recently have all failed replication.
That's partially due to bad practices, partially to the fact that psychology is harder than physics, and partially to perverse funding mechanisms.