New ask Hacker News story: ask HN: How is psychology not bullshit?
ask HN: How is psychology not bullshit?
2 by sheperd209 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I come from an applied mathematics background but by no means a researcher/academic. Still every time I look at a clickbaity psychology article title, it baffles me how they arrive at their conclusions. Also I'm very skeptical of their understanding of statistics or worse yet, I've heard that there's a lot of "p-hacking" to get the results they want. It seems like such a bogus fields but they dress it up with scientific terminology and statistics. Unironically, can someone tell me why they think it's bullshit if they do, and tell me why it's not bullshit if you don't it is.
2 by sheperd209 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I come from an applied mathematics background but by no means a researcher/academic. Still every time I look at a clickbaity psychology article title, it baffles me how they arrive at their conclusions. Also I'm very skeptical of their understanding of statistics or worse yet, I've heard that there's a lot of "p-hacking" to get the results they want. It seems like such a bogus fields but they dress it up with scientific terminology and statistics. Unironically, can someone tell me why they think it's bullshit if they do, and tell me why it's not bullshit if you don't it is.
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