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Psychology is NOT a science.

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jenovajunkie
, 10-18-2012 at 03:29 AM (1400 Views)
My first blog entry, it only seems fit to refer to my first big post. So when I came here, I fought endlessly trying to convince everyone psychology was a science. And then later figured out I was totally wrong, but failed to apologize for my naivety.
I said behaviour is what it studies. psychology: the science of behaviour. That's what my first year text read.

However, much like economics, the subject of study (the economy) cannot be predicted.

The fact is, I behaved quite wrongfully. Defending at the time what I believed to be correct.

Accept my apology, or don't. The point is I maned to it.
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  1. Citizen Bleys's Avatar
    It was still a fun thread.
  2. Quindiana Jones's Avatar
    It really is the biggest scam of the past century.
  3. Tigmafuzz's Avatar
    Lol pseudo-science. I would forgive you if you hadn't used that awful-looking font.
  4. Jiro's Avatar
    I commend your passion in the initial argument and your courage to admit the truth. It takes a really top kind of guy to admit he was wrong, good work.
  5. nik0tine's Avatar
    [QUOTE=Harle-y Davidson;bt4811]It really is the biggest scam of the past century.[/QUOTE]
    That's a good way of putting it.

    Also, do you have a link to this thread? Now I want to read it again.
  6. Slothy's Avatar
    I'd also like a link because I vaguely remember the thread I think, but I'm not sure and I'm too lazy to search.

    Still, it takes some balls to admit to being mistaken.

    As to Quin's comment, I could probably think of some bigger ones (or at least ones of equal magnitude), but it's still pretty bad.
  7. Citizen Bleys's Avatar
    Wait a minute...I just realized. You're posting in Comic Sans and you're apologizing because you were once wrong about something? Your priorities are screwed up.
  8. Raistlin's Avatar
    I read this blog title and my first thought was "nik is going to get a kick out of this."
  9. Sephiroth's Avatar
    Just because something is about probabilities and most of the time about generalized statements it is not not a sciene.
  10. yukina's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth
    Just because something is about probabilities and most of the time about generalized statements it is not not a sciene.
    Agreed.
  11. Dr. rydrum2112's Avatar
    I think you have to define psychology in a more useful way. Psychological Science, is a science. The degree of "Psychology" in its traditional sense is a science. The study of behavior could be taken as either a science or humanity (such as literature, which is an alternative method of looking at human behavior).