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When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?

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When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?
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RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?
May 13, 2021 at 4:45 pm (This post was last modified: May 13, 2021 at 5:00 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(May 13, 2021 at 4:08 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Soft sciences deal in statistics instead of an accurate measurement.  Theories often can't be disproved, and multiple explanations exist for any observation.  It is harder to separate the real science from the pseudo-science.

That's an interesting comment; it seems to me that almost all of science deals with statistics. From the extraction of data in fMRI research, to the very definition of evolution as changes in allele frequency. Science tends to be quantitative, which is to stay it can be analyzed statistically.
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RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience? - by John 6IX Breezy - May 13, 2021 at 4:45 pm

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