Is Psychology a Science or Not?

[mogreene6]

Discuss & Debate, please keep it civil.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Trying to pick a major? Be an engineer.

 

[jomar]

Otherwise, arts and crafts.

 

[rocket_surgery]

Didn't know it was up for debate.

 

[mogreene6]

Nope I'm a biology major

 

[hashtag46]

I recall this other college kid who started another philosophical debate thread a while ago (it was one of his college assignments). Hillarious thread, that one.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Some physicist and chemist who never grew up might give them shit for being "softies" because they like their results all conclusive and tidy. They like 2+2=4...every time. If you don't get 4 every time then GTFO because you're all ate up and need to find out what's wrong with your experiment.

Psychology says 2+2=4.... 88% of the time. 8% of it =5 and 4% of the time it stays 2.......and it drives chemist/biologist/physicist nuts to call a shit show of "results" like that "science".

But, people are weird, and they do use the scientific method to gather their information.

So yea.....it's a science.......

Kinda

 

[KingOrfeo]

Of course psychology is a science, and why are you stairng at the worms crawling all over my skin?! Suck my eigenvector-with-bearnaise-sauce-and-post-structuralist-romanticism, you glowing ethereal perv! Duct Tape is God! I'm part of the floor now! I extrude hair, but can't retract it! I actually want to fuck your mother, but in public I say I want to fuck my own, just for the sake of public opinion, because that's popular, isn't it? Pardon me, but have you seen my head? It's mostly purple, and its general description is something mostly ignrored in relevant academic disciplines, but I am sure it sings in some minor key, like "Rally 'Riund the Flag" in both Union and Cornfed versions.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Certainly not a lit. Standard egghead degree is a BSc Psychology up here.

Good article on the relationship between art and science.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/2a1.html

 

[magicalmoments]

Some physicist and chemist who never grew up might give them shit for being "softies" because they like their results all conclusive and tidy. They like 2+2=4...every time. If you don't get 4 every time then GTFO because you're all ate up and need to find out what's wrong with your experiment.

Psychology says 2+2=4.... 88% of the time. 8% of it =5 and 4% of the time it stays 2.......and it drives chemist/biologist/physicist nuts to call a shit show of "results" like that "science".

But, people are weird, and they do use the scientific method to gather their information.

So yea.....it's a science.......

Kinda

Like Economics or political studies.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Like Economics or political studies.

Those are really just mental masturbation subjects, not really science.

 

[Libsam]

It's "soft science", a social science.

Physical science and biology, and all their fields are "hard science".

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I went thru a psychology school.

Some folks do science , but mostly folks get together and vote ideas up or down.