I wish people stopped saying psychology is not very scientific. It's so tiring. We do more stats than any other field and we test theories.
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@o_guest Explaining is key tho cos, from what I've gathered, the avg lay person rly does not know much of psych beyond Freud & counselling -
@o_guest@NoraPlethora I have found it helps when you're more precise, eg say mathematical psych, computational psych, etc. -
@fdabl well, I was very precise, but then they look at me with a glazed look and ask what department. Besides for people +@NoraPlethora -
@fdabl@NoraPlethora who are not in computational mathematical or neuro psychological research, added words might make it worse. Those + -
@fdabl@NoraPlethora words are kind of making it worse by further appealing to to fallacy of hard vs soft. It's very cultural and deep. -
@o_guest@NoraPlethora I do believe there is something to that this distinction, though, cf. strong inference http://knowledgecontext.org/COSMOS/Strong_Inference_(Platt).pdf … -
@fdabl@NoraPlethora yes, there is. But psychology (complex system) requires more science than a discipline with few theories and low noise. - 2 more replies
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