Psychology anyone?

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who are horribly, horribly wrong more than 3 times out of 4 refer to themselves as "scientists."

Facts please. You are extremely interested in facts as you attempt to disprove psychology yet you don't mind pulling blind statistics out of your arse (I'm assuming that's where this one came from).

I think some parents trust shrinks a bit too easily when it comes to drugging their kids up.

I agree, ADD/ADHD isn't a new thing. What did we do before we had Ritalin and adderall? We disciplined them more. Some forms of discipline are extremely healthy so please don't flame me for believing a well brought up child is equal to child abuse. It seems to me that kids played outdoors considerably more than they do now. This is true for my neighborhood at least. So it would seem they had more healthy ways of expending energy, being active is also healthier.

Neurology deals with observable things that physically exist in the real world. That's science.

Psychology deals with abstractions that have no basis in physical reality.

Peoples actions and reactions are not abstract, they are very real.
You can't deny that by studying a large group of people's behaviours you will see trends. How far you get with trends becoming diagnosises (spelling?) is beyond me because I've never studied it.

It's a bit of a cop-out, but [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof]Wikipedia: BoP

BOP demands an amount of evidence that is established or accepted by convention or community standards.
I'm pretty sure the community (humans in general) believe psychology is a science, not sure how I can convince you of this but the US Judicial system uses them as subject matter experts in court trials as I'm sure countries around the world do also.


Jenova- I've noticed more negativity from this generation than from my own, mostly in the form of language and somewhat in the form of violence. I have no guess as to the stimulous but when I look at my parents generation compared to my own it is the same way. We were more agressive than they were. I'm not talking about just fighting because every generation of kids is rowdy, it seems to me that the limit of agression keeps being pushed farther. It's saddest to see in children.

Kid's are more succeptible to peer pressure and are IMO at a time in their life that they really want to fit in (or stick out) so popular clothing trends are everywhere. I'm pretty sure this area hasn't changed in forever

professeur Rushton from the University of Western Ontario

mmm this is actually one flamestorm I'm not interested in getting involved in... though it is interesting... should anyone want to read the abridged version: http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/Race_Evolution_Behavior.pdf
you can't deny it is interesting... only read half of it because he continues to re-itterate what he said in his opening statement and he doesn't actually include the studies that he has in his book so it doesn't really sway my oppinion more with facts as it emphasizes getting his book.

Keep it up guys but don't flame, this is a love game