There's people in science/academia I try very hard to like but their direct disdain and purposeful ignorance of anything to do with psychology is really off-putting and really beggars belief. Yet, they talk, often wrongly, like they know all about psych/what people are like. 
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After a maths/physics degree and some philosophy grad studies, I began to suspect I knew nothing. So I went into social work for a while and found out that I was right. Still working on the problem.
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Psychology has the drawback that people often think they have privileged knowledge (folk psychology) or that it is a non-science, and often even both in combination.
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Did the disdain come from someone trained in a particular discipline. CS? At my institution I know CS or other beta-students sometimes think they are better/smarter than eg psych students. Not sure how much this is not ingroup-outgroup or symmetric.
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I believe some (or hopefully most or all) of that disdain disappears in later years, when those trained in CS are invited to engage in scientific challenges in psych in interdisciplinary programs, such as we have in AI and CNS.
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In my experience, this comes from CS/maths men who are PIs (never has this with CS students). I have had 3-4 cases of this with the same 3-4 men over the last 2 years. I have to say that CS students are and have been really respectful about my superior psych/brain knowledge.
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Yeah I feel you and I’ve experienced the same. Additionally that they think they could do it better not knowing what’s a control group
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. There's literally a sci developed to to look into what you think is "obvious".
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