Why Psychology isn't a Science..

[Ghost Utmost]

How is Econ a science? Basic economics says that minimum wages reduces employment. That basic theory of economics (price floors and price ceilings) is routinely challenged by numerous people. I doubt anyone would challenge F=MA with such similar confidence.


Phillips curve, laffer curve---it seems Econ is used when it says something beneficial to those in power and ignored when it doesn't.

Econ/psychology/sociology and anthropology are dangerous ideologies that masquerade as "science", and should be discarded similarly to para psychology and any other whimsical bullshyt on college campuses.

Sociology is hard science. This percentage of people engage in this act this percent of the time when this factor is present.

Archeology is hard science. They can use the things they find to piece together the daily lives of long dead people.

Economics.. I don't know much about it but it seems like Meteorology. They try to get it right but it's hard.

The reason psychology is iffy as science is because you are measuring something you can't measure directly (or at all really): people's motivations. How would you know when you've gotten it right? You still have to depend on them to say "yeah. That's it." So iono.

 

[CHL]

oh god that's gundam? I agree with him tho....

Yes it is lmao

 

[CHL]

@Broke Wave is economics a science?

 

[nineteeneightysix]

Why psychology isn't science
The article is a few years old but still poignant. Discuss.

(1) I agree...

(2) After 8 months working in a Mental Health Hospital, I realized there isn't much that can be done to help people with psychological problems...

 

[Pifferry]

It's a disgrace that you have 5X the rate of neg rep as the lunatic above you

The fact that @Medicate has such a high rep and me so low tells me all I need to know about it.
People tend to think all psychology is some Sigmund Freud couch type stuff but after taking it my senior year even with it just being highschool you get a real picture of how much positive advancements it's had on the world and the different ways it's applied like with Neuroscience and the unseen stuff that effects you everyday.

 

[Camile.Bidan]

Less than a year? Are you failing basic mathematics now, confused half asian?

so you had significantly more than 307 posts since July 5 2015? Cause today you have 5307 posts and its August 22nd.

Honest question, how do you people have time for all that?

Do you go outside?

Do you have a house of your own? Do have any girls on deck? Do you have a job? I don't get it.

 

[tmonster]

People who dismiss Psychology don't understand how many benefits it's had on the world and all that it encompasses.

Not only that, They can employ the scientific method in their investigations like anyone else

 

[Serious]

HELLLLLLL no

bu bu bu bu bu but I have a Bachelors of Science in Econ

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Sociology is hard science. This percentage of people engage in this act this percent of the time when this factor is present.

Archeology is hard science. They can use the things they find to piece together the daily lives of long dead people.

Economics.. I don't know much about it but it seems like Meteorology. They try to get it right but it's hard.

The reason psychology is iffy as science is because you are measuring something you can't measure directly (or at all really): people's motivations. How would you know when you've gotten it right? You still have to depend on them to say "yeah. That's it." So iono.

Economics is more policy driven than anything. Its literally the social science of limited resources. Thats it.

Its used to make utilitarian conclusions, not objective ones.

Theres a few documentaries on how economics evolved to become a field in which the policy makers relied on simplification of economic ideas to win over the common folk

 

[Serious]

Neuroscience is a field that should be taken more seriously than psychology itself.

well neuroscience actually infuses the principles of biochemistry in its curriculum. Meanwhile your average psychology major , never took any class harder than intro biology or astronomy

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The fact that @Medicate has such a high rep and me so low tells me all I need to know about it.
People tend to think all psychology is some Sigmund Freud couch type stuff but after taking it my senior year even with it just being highschool you get a real picture of how much positive advancements it's had on the world and the different ways it's applied like with Neuroscience and the unseen stuff that effects you everyday.

Neuroscience is going to do to psychology what quantum mechanics did to alchemy

 

[Serious]

I pulled a gun a good looking girl because she came on to me, and I was in bad mood. I could have fukked her, but I chose to demonstrate that I have power over her because I was annoyed. A fukk boy like you probably hasn't even fukked a bytch in the last six months.

5 thousand posts in less than a year. Get a fukking life.

Are these new allegations coming out now?Clearly you mean raped instead of fukk,like in a casual sense? And you never saw yourself as some thug, having to resort to pulling a gun out on a harmless chick.

You're the lowest of the low buddy, and I've never had to pull a weapon out on anyone. And I don't have a criminal record, not jobless, broke, degreeless, w/e you stereotype you vicariously live by.

You still trying put muscle on as well buddy Must suck to have INFERIOR GENETICS, compared to a full black man.

 

[Pifferry]

well neuroscience actually infuses the principles of biochemistry in its curriculum. Meanwhile your average psychology major , never took any class harder than intro biology or astronomy

Do you enjoy looking down on other majors?

 

[squiddyB]

Psychology covers a darn lot, and I'd say neuroscience could be considered a subfield of psychology.

If you're looking into purely input-output in terms of sensory processing or pavlovian-level behaviours (stimulus, observed behaviour) then you're really not far from observing just atoms colliding and noting the results.

 

[Fellatio]

Its true....

There are theories.. like biological psychology... evolutionary psychology ect but neurosurgery would be the science