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Not interested in blaming psychology or anything else. Just wanted to know why you sound so sure of that. Regardless of whether psychology is effective or not
by rini17 2y ago
Not interested in blaming psychology or anything else. Just wanted to know why you sound so sure of that.
Regardless of whether psychology is effective or not quite, I think epistemic hell is involved. Very good explanation: https://www.secretorum.life/p/epistemic-hell https://www.secretorum.life/p/epistemic-hell
- M95D 2y agoI'm not sure. I know my point of view could be biased. I was surprised myself about what others told me. But it doesn't matter. I think we can both agree that psychology today isn't at the level it was 100 years ago - it's a sudden improvement that didn't happen for thousands of years. The discussion was about the "why did it take so long", or "why now". @mrkeen argued that it was the scientific method. I'm not convinced. The scientific method was used since 1800s, I think, yet 150 more years passed with not much happening in this field. - Was it the consequences of war in the age of bombs, mines, gas, machine guns? - Was it Freud that made psychology a science? - Was it marketing that gave a boost in research?
- rini17 2y agoI would agree only if psychology caused some kind of progress to increase life expectancy or reduce violence. Which I'm not really aware of...so if not that, what was the improvement?