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InquilineKea comments on Are the Sciences Better Than the Social Sciences For Training Rationalists? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: InquilineKea 31 May 2011 11:05:41PM 1 point [-]

That's certainly true, but those are not the mainstays of most psychology curricula (what also hurts, is the types of people who will be your peers). So unless you're pursuing it at MIT/Caltech, I'd steer away from a psychology major (unless you can go straight into upper-division psych courses, which you can't at my school)