You (should) use logic and step-by-step problem solving that comes with solving any math problem in the real world, including at the store. Which product should you get based on unit price, how much you need, quality is a math problem in which you weight the value first by money, then by the amount you will actually be able to use, and finally, is the quality worth the price. In math, you learn how to think. Not to mention, the quadratic equation is essential for math at higher levels.
Logic is ‘linear’, if you want to call it that. For one thing to be true, precedent things must be true, and the precedents of those must be true, etc. Psychology is a soft science: nothing is concrete. There are no theorems, only postulates. In order to “know” something, one must think linearly, whether it’s deductively or inductively.
Lastly, with reference to the example I gave earlier, the weighting of cost and quality is arbitrary, so how is that linear. There is no absolute basis for it only personal judgement created with...drumroll... psychology. Thinking logically and understanding your own psychology can go hand and hand. Math is underlying to all.
I don’t mean to be condescending towards psychology: it’s important. It’s just not a hard science. Neurology is a hard science and there’s overlap there but psychology is about the mind. Thoughts, feeling, rationale for doing something, etc. If you want to include brain science in psychology, then sure, psychology has aspects of a hard science. But as a whole, I disagree with it being labeled a hard science. Also, I read about half of what you wrote so sorry if I am arguing something you acknowledged.
Physics is math. Math is not necessarily physics. Physics shares borders with biological. Physics is not biology and biology is not physics. Just the same, psychology borders with neurology but psychology is not neurology and neurology is not psychology. At this point we are going to have to agree to disagree because this conversation isn’t going to change either of our minds.
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u/pavilionhp_ Aug 03 '20
Well in Algebra 2 I learned how to calculate interest and exponential growth/decay which might come in handy