How can psychology be fixed and turned into a genuine science/not a laughing stock?
For me, it should start with trashing any 'self-reported' data
Psychology is a pseudoscience
Carson Wood
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Carter Cook
it can't
Isaac Thomas
Phychology will finally stop being a bullshit pseudoscience on the day that it gets replaced completely with study of the biology of the brain.
Julian Clark
its called neuroscience and it's already happening right now
Carter Price
could i get a quick rundown on those guys on the bottom right?
Brayden Wilson
>mathematician and physishit
>OP wants to meme
>puts them in a psychology thread
Asher Foster
If psychology is pseudoscience then why does everyone on this board believe IQ is an infallible measure of intelligence?
Dylan Kelly
What IQ measures is well-defined (normalized distribution on scores gotten on pattern solving tests), and is very successful at detecting mental deficiency. Freudian theory is a load of rhino doodoo some child molestation victim came up with.
Camden Thomas
Right, but no self respecting psychologist actually follows Freud or psychoanalysis. It's important to keep in mind that psychology is relatively young compared to fields like physics and chemistry, which have been around since ancient Greece. There's still a lot of kinks to work out, but hopefully neuroscience will make things a lot more concrete in the next few decades. For now though psychology has some practical uses which justify it's existence
The problem with IQ as a measure of intelligence is that intelligence itself is a poorly defined concept
Michael Nguyen
What about Kant he is very critical in his ideas and concepts