(November 21, 2024 at 8:53 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:Quote:Yes, I believe that psychiatric diagnoses contain a very large subjective element. Psychiatrists can reach very different diagnoses concerning the same patient.
Show me a single more useful metric, because the eternal bleating of the politicians and their ilk with their baseless, misbegotten opinions isn't worth a damn. I'll take psychology over ideology any day of the week.
Yes, psychology is much better at this than politicians.
That doesn't mean that psychology is free of subjectivity or of influence from ideology.