RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?
May 17, 2021 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2021 at 4:02 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(May 17, 2021 at 6:33 am)Belacqua Wrote: What I was thinking about in Japan was that in certain kinds of prescribed areas, eccentricity or individuality is accepted very easily. Maybe we can say it's a tight society, with pockets of looseness. The overall tightness means that how people respond to oddballs is also restricted, which makes them more secure.
Yes, that's exactly right. I remember reading something about that in the book. Here's an excerpt:
"For example, even tight nations have select domains where anything goes—where citizens can let off normative steam. The looseness of these contexts tends to be carefully designated. Take Takeshita Street in Tokyo. Within the confines of this narrow pedestrian shopping street, Japan’s cultural demands for uniformity and order are completely suspended. On Takeshita Street, people stroll and preen in zany costumes, ranging from anime characters to sexy maids to punk musicians."
Quote:I had assumed that more always meant better, but maybe not.
More is definitely better, but it isn't always significantly better. It might be analogous to increasing the resolution of an image; you get more clarity with more data but there isn't a sudden overhaul of information. Here's an excerpt form one of my textbooks:
"If you take a look at some studies on perception and memory, you will see that they include sample sizes of between 20 and 50 subjects per condition. However, if you are only collecting one measurement per subject or are asking subjects to complete surveys and questionnaires, you may need to include a larger sample. Many such studies include sample sizes in the hundreds. If you are sampling from a small population (e.g., autistic children), you may need to use a small sample of only 10 to 20 subjects due to lack of availability of individuals in this population and the difficulty you may have in recruiting such subjects."
Quote:Are you involved in any research of this type? Probably you don't want to be too specific in public here, but I'm curious if this is part of your grad school so far.
I'm not currently involved in research, but many people are, and I hope to be next year. So far my courses involve seminar discussions a final research proposal at the end of the course, in which you have to design or propose your own research/theory paper.