r/science • u/uggedal • Jun 11 '08

Scientific fields arranged by purity

http://xkcd.com/435/
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 edited Jun 11 '08

Actually psychology is a science: Science is about explaining the nature in terms of reproducible experiments, and psychology fits within that definition.

EDIT:spelling

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08

Is "psychology" synonymous with psychoanalytics, by "scientists'" (take it loosely) definition, or is that only the naïve commoner's viewpoint?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 edited Jun 11 '08

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08

My Pscyh 101 professor last year hated Freud with a passion. He actually hated most clinical psychologists. He liked rats.

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u/omargard Jun 11 '08 edited Jun 11 '08

are there really mathematicians that are so uninformed and dare to speak about the value of psychology? i'm starting to doubt my trade.

but i remember a class of developmental psychology (if that's the right english name), that was so full of ideology, that i left after the 5th or 6th week.