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RomeoStevens comments on What's wrong with psychology, anyway? - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 28 April 2012 11:36PM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 29 April 2012 09:11:52AM -2 points [-]

AFAIK Psychology doesn't hold the empirical findings of cogsci and econ in any particularly favorable light, so I ignore it.

Comment author: Swimmy 30 April 2012 01:43:22AM 0 points [-]

Do you mean the average psychologist, the average elite academic psychologist, or what? Experimental econ is psychology, and lots of psychologists study it. I have no idea what the average psychologist thinks about supply and demand or eye tracking, though.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 30 April 2012 02:12:29AM 0 points [-]

Spoke with several average psychologists, became concerned, then read widely cited psychology papers. I didn't see any evidence of high quality analysis. All struck me as a severe case of deformation professionelle.