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I'm curious to hear your perspective on the validity of psychology / psychiatry / sociology as someone adjacent to the field. I am a hard science maths / data
by elliotto 2y ago
I'm curious to hear your perspective on the validity of psychology / psychiatry / sociology as someone adjacent to the field.
I am a hard science maths / data science guy, but unlike a lot of my peers I have a great interest in softer reasoning (philosophy, ethics, political science etc). But I am constantly disappointed by how tainted by ideology psychology and psychiatry feel (and economics, but this is a different discussion).
Do you think that psychology and psychiatry are held to the same rigour as harder sciences and should be considered as valid?
- llamaimperative 2y agoAll fields of inquiry are tainted by ideology. Read the history of literally any scientific field ever. The entire system is designed to accept this as fact, because science is done by humans, and to still arrive at the truth nonetheless. If we take those two observations: a) science is done by humans and b) humans have motivations, obviously the way to arrive at truth is to allow for most things to be wrong most of the time. This is the process by which we've learned every single thing about the universe. I don't know what you mean by "held to the same rigor." I don't think any psychologist on the planet would tell you we understand psychology as well as we understand basic chemical reactions.