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There is no science in psychology, period. By nature of dealing with humans you can't really run thorough experiments like on rats. On top of of that, psycholo
by morbicer 2y ago
There is no science in psychology, period.
By nature of dealing with humans you can't really run thorough experiments like on rats. On top of of that, psychology is mired with quackery, big egos and partisanship (nature vs nurture, CBBT vs psychoanalysis, humanistic vs psychodynamic, approach to DSM,..)
I totally believe in good psychologists that can help you, I just don't believe there's much rigor and objectivity.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delivers-bleak-verdict-on-validity-of-psychology-experiment-results https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delive...
- acchow 2y agoYou are unfairly being downvoted. The reproducibility project attempted to reproduce the results of 97 experiments in psychology that originally had "statistically significant" results and was only able to find 37 with statistically significant results during replication. That is not to say that psychology is not helpful - it can help a great deal. But we need to stop pretending it is "science".
- jononor 2y agoStopping to consider it a science means giving up. Instead we should improve the scientific level of the field, including (but not limited to) reproducibility.