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Old 03-17-2004, 08:04 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Tophat665
Nope. It wishes it were, and it pretends to the trappings of scence and empiricism, but, an the bottom of it, it's really just religion gussied up in modernist clothes.

Shamanism works too, but no one ever asks if that's a science.
This couldn't be further from the truth.

To me psychology is a science because it endeavours to be a science. While some sciences such as Math can absolutely say the 2+2=4, is it a bit of a fallacious argument to compare that with psychology because in math such as this you are essentially working with a Population and not a sample, and you have also removed all variables. Psychology would be a pure science too if it were able to measure POPULATIONS; instead it must take bits of data in samples of 1067 and attempt to use them to generalize in a meaningful way. You cannot focus on the fact that they are often wrong; chemistry experiments do not always work as planned for unseen reasons too. So to tie back to my original point, science is in a constant state of flux, psychology attempts to use the most advanced and scientific methods at its disposal to generalize and treat a great many disorders. It's not perfect and never will be, but it is always STRIVING to make bigger leaps forward.
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