(September 27, 2020 at 2:04 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(September 27, 2020 at 1:55 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: And what psychology says doesn't have the same weight as what the physics says.
And yet, what physics says is dependant on what psychologists say. Things such as biases, reasoning, observation, information processing, and everything else that allows physicists to study physics, are built on assumptions about how the mind works.
Assumptions which psychological research often contradicts (like the simultaneity of sensation and perception assumed by astronomers). Physicists cannot escape their own brain. What's dangerous is being oblivious to this fact as scientists.
You might as well say linguistics is a harder science than mathematics because mathematicians sometimes use words.
Yes, physics does use blinded controlled experiments to protect itself from mind interfering with the results. But it's way easier to protect oneself from mind interfering with the results of the experiment in physics than it is in psychology.