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Great idea, lets go on our gut feelings rather than science. Lets apply this to other fields too. Driving a car will become much more exiting when it can explod
by jules 12y ago
Great idea, lets go on our gut feelings rather than science. Lets apply this to other fields too. Driving a car will become much more exiting when it can explode any second. Homeopathy is medicine with very low statistical properties, but it's so much fun! I love it, it's so useful! And the car engineers and pharmaceutical scientists will no longer have to do that boring math and statistics. Lets leave empirically validated methods behind us!
Hint: if the statistics show that the results are pathetic, then the results are pathetic. Ignoring statistics merely sweeps that under the rug, it doesn't fix it.
- UhUhUhUh 12y agoAn even better idea: Let's live according to probabilities. That will be fun too. And there are tons of positive results that are pathetic. Study shows that impact of hammer on foot causes sensation of pain compared to control group (p<.001). Obsession with statistics is the culprit not statistics. It's just a tool like another. Not a TOE.
- pmoriarty 12y agoLike many "soft-sciences", psychology has had a serious case of physics-envy since at least the days of Freud, with it only getting worse since. There were some brief respites now and again, with the likes of Jungian and Humanistic psychology. But these have largely been stamped out by scientistic, mechanistic, reductionist approaches.