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Scientists are human. Science is the work of humans. Humans, and their works, are flawed. This is a problem like our eventual deaths are problems. Sure, it might suck, but what are you going to do? twitter.com/WAWilsonIV/sta

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@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Astrophysics and psychology share a common flaw, however: a lack of instruments with sufficient sophistication to measure what needs to be measured. And limited opportunity for direct observation and, hence, for falsification.

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@Triquetrea

Jun 20, 2018

Physics is far more sophisticated and mature than psychology, but there is still human error, measurement error, unknowable variables... The farther you get from our atmosphere, the worse. The more erratic something moves, the worse. Etc.

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@Triquetrea

We can see psychologists do the occasional science, while recognizing that it's a rather poorly developed field, full of charlatans, motivated research... The scientific method isn't the problem, and neither is applying it to the psyche. But we can still be terrible at doing so.

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