/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11095865

>>10678695
Cats are stupid.

Shit works on cats, too.

>>6564843
it is if the "this" refers to not knowing the answer.

anyway, did you know that there are more cells inside the human body then there are neurons in the entire brain?

There's a lot of bullshit in psychology. There's also a lot that isn't. It's hard to generalize since it's a very wide field. Being able to describe something mathematically does not a science make. There is a lot to be understood and learned that isn't mathematical. If the area you are studying lends itself to mathematical description, then so be it. Math is an aid to science, not a replacement for it. Psychology utilizes statistics and experiments (which have to have special design considerations in the social sciences) to learn, to make objective observations, etc. But if psychology was simply taking statistical measurements and not forming theories and trying to understand human behavior and cognition, then frankly it would be even less scientifically rigorous than it is now.

Personally, at some point psychology is just gonna merge with neurology anyway. Maybe you can describe how the brain's neurons tend to wire themselves mathematically, but that's probably pretty far off into the future. And you'd have to be able to know what those numbers meant anyway. What it implies about behavior.

>>6205715
wow, since when did they finish calculating pi?