> If anything, this whole debacle has revealed to me how pathetic the whole "science" of psychology is in its current state.
What? How an academic being defensive of his study, conducted in 1971, an invalidation of "current" psychology? That's 40 years ago.
> I mean, has the field of psychology given us anything of value? I'm asking genuinely.
What an extreme leap, and an odd generalization for me to have to argue against. How about Milgram, Asch, Cognitive Dissonance? Studies of memory, vision, neurons can inform the development of AI. Things like IQ tests have helped detect and prove that leaded gasoline was damaging the intellect of a generation. Psychology is THE field to give clarity to question such as what gender dysphoria is about (research shows it is usually correlated with a brain that is more structurally similar to the gender one identifies as [1]).
So I'm not sure where a wholesale indictment of a field could really come from.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality
What? How an academic being defensive of his study, conducted in 1971, an invalidation of "current" psychology? That's 40 years ago.
> I mean, has the field of psychology given us anything of value? I'm asking genuinely.
What an extreme leap, and an odd generalization for me to have to argue against. How about Milgram, Asch, Cognitive Dissonance? Studies of memory, vision, neurons can inform the development of AI. Things like IQ tests have helped detect and prove that leaded gasoline was damaging the intellect of a generation. Psychology is THE field to give clarity to question such as what gender dysphoria is about (research shows it is usually correlated with a brain that is more structurally similar to the gender one identifies as [1]).
So I'm not sure where a wholesale indictment of a field could really come from.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality