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To: yesthatjallen

What sort of scientists are these? All sorts of people call themselves scientists these days - psychologists and the like are not scientists, however.


32 posted on 11/01/2018 10:33:36 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“...psychologists and the like are not scientists...”

I beg to differ. I earned a degree in psychology and attended a year of Grad School in Social Psychology 50 years ago. In those days, one of the most carefully discussed topics in the field was “what is it that we can SCIENTIFICALLY study as psychology?” These individuals would have failed that part of the course.

We made a real effort in those days to make the study of behavior (the scientific definition of psychology) as rigorous and fact oriented as physics. I consider myself a scientist; I can’t see how the ‘psychologists’ in this group even got into Graduate School.


60 posted on 11/02/2018 12:47:36 AM PDT by VietVet
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