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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Why do this to a field in which you aren't expert? And why do this to somebody (me, others) actually working in this field? I don't start talking, e.g., cosmology to cosmologists like I know
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Yes, we DO measure, e.g, decision making, visual search, task switching, & on & on. The sci community (psych & neuro) have developed loads of behavioural & brain measures & cunning experimental paradigms, exactly to understand all the things these people claim are unknowable.
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So yeah, horrible attitude, sort yourselves out.
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Oh, and PS: There's actually research into this BS. Check out the Dunning-Kruger effect and the bias bland spot, for example. Hey, it's almost like there's a field devoted to understanding how people think and behave.
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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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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
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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