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[Anonymous No.5225895]

It's Psychology considered a real science or a seudoscience by /sci/?

Discuss

[scriblord No.5225903]

>>5225895
Experimental psychology *can be* scientific.

Psychoanalysis is bullshit of course.

[Anonymous No.5225901]

You must be really new here. It's considered worthless pseudoscience with no actual merit.

[valjean !!4SOyPF0IuOv No.5225902]

>>5225895
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Psychologists make hypotheses with quantifiable predictions = science.

[Anonymous No.5225937]

>>5225901
>pseudoscience with no actual merit
Wouldn't classify as a hard science but that doesn't mean its worthless

[Anonymous No.5225942]

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[Anonymous No.5225969]

C.G. Jung was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
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[Anonymous No.5225975]

> seudoscience

[derp@wut]$ sudo science

[Anonymous No.5225981]

>>5225895
i think it has some merit, just not the way its practiced now
basically, we have such a limited understanding of the human brain. people are inherently similar, there are recognizable patterns of behavior. trying to apply these population based theories to an individual is where it breaks down. "people" are similar, the individual person is extremely complex

[Anonymous No.5227803]

Psychology mkes testable predictions about observable behaviour. How would anyone not consider it science?

Freud however was not a scientist. His work is purely philosophical. Mistaking him for a psychologist is a common mistake among ignorant and uneducated people.

[Anonymous No.5227816]

not really a science

I don't blame psychologists though, seems like most of them really want to be scientists, but all the real experiments are unethical and/or expensive. Not everyone has it as easy as physicists.

[Crane No.5227870]

ITT: People who do not study psychology pretend they know what it's actually like.

[Anonymous No.5227885]

>>5227803
Making testable predictions of objective observables is a miniscule corner of psychology.

The part of the field where they do this proper scientific integrity and intellectual discipline is vanishingly small, and possibly mythical.

[Crane No.5227901]

>>5227885

You obviously dont have any clue at all or you wouldn't mistake psychology for clinical psychology, which is merely a small subdivision of psychology (in case you couldn't guess it by the name, duh).

You seem to think that everything psychological is psychotherapeutical. Far from it.