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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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 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 4 days ago

Why not?

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