Should "soft science" be considered real science? (lemmychan.org)

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Personally? No, absolutely not. There should be no differentiating between what can be measured, and what cannot.

I can't help but look at the reproducibility issue in "Psychology" and notice, what did they do about it? Nothing. It just exists. It's not real science.

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

The study of human behavior is more difficult to measure, but can absolutely be held to scientific rigor. In fact, all branches of science have some degree of overlap and interconnection, and thus have blurrier lines than you might expect.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

If psychology was held to scientific rigor with controls, statistical power and proper statistical analysis, none of it would get published.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Why not?

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