Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Psychology has an embarrassing history.
Half of their studies aren’t reproducible. Their most famous study is basically a fraud. They’re behind lobotomies, the satanic panic, and Eugenics.
I’m not anti-intelectual or a Scientologist or anything. I guess what I’m trying to say is that psychologists like Jordan Peterson might want to clean up their own room before trying to lecture the rest of us.
Psychology has an embarrassing history.
It really doesn’t?
Half their studies aren’t reproducible.
Replicable*, and also see here.
Their most famous study is basically a fraud.
Do you mean the Stanford prison experiment, which is famous because of how terrible it was? The one that’s taught in Psych 101 classes as a lesson on ethics and how not to design an experiment? Because while I would argue it’s not the most famous study, the entire reason it’s famous is because it was so shittily designed that psychologists going forward took lessons from it.
They’re behind eugenics
This literally isn’t true, or at least it’s a ridiculous half-truth to put psychology at the forefront of eugenics. Eugenics is – surprise, surprise – rooted in biology after inheritance became more widely understood. Eugenics had its hand in basically every natural science, and so you’ll find occasional psychologists like Henry H. Goddard showing up, but you’ll see biologists, statisticians, politicians, and so forth. Eventually eugenics spread into fields like psychiatry, but “they’re behind eugenics” is absolute fucking horseshit that you fail to back up with literally anything.
I’m not anti-intelectual [sic] or a Scientologist or anything
Uh-huh…
I guess what I’m trying to say is that psychologists like Jordan Peterson might want to clean up their own room before trying to lecture the rest of us.
Why are you bringing up Jordan Peterson? Peterson is widely despised among psychologists, he no longer works at the University of Toronto, and instead of contributing research to the field or engaging in clinical practice puts out self-help sludge. “I’m not an anti-intelectual, but I’m going to take an entire century-old field of science and compress it into Philip Zimbardo(?) and Jordan Peterson so I can say that science bad actually.”
P-hacking?
Interpreters gotta interpret.
Not the point of this post at all, but I just realized imma is a really efficient contraction. That’s four words crunched down into one. I’d hate to have to learn English as a second language.
“I mean it’s all just numbers, right?”
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
**Replication crisis intensifies