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Originally Posted by dyna mo
don't be daft. psychology is hardly science. you can't prove to any reasonable level a psychology experiment.
"psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability."
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It is science; I won't step back from that. Neither all science should be valued with same criteria. Psychology is essiantially biology; the only difference is that it is applied to humans. Biology is science, you can agree to that? And biology studies humans too, as any other living thing. Psychology is just a subset of biology.
This "psychology isn't science" relates to religion. Like we have soul and such, and studying human behaviour, etc. is some fairy tail stuff that is more religion than science. But if you observe humans as mere animals; there is no fucking reason not to keep psychology as a science.