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danielmarkbrucetoday at 8:51 PM5 repliesview on HN

If you ever took psych 101, it was immediately obvious it's mostly horse shit. Made up nonsense theory, with studies that have few participants and are done by people who don't know math.


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grebctoday at 10:30 PM

It’s mostly just window dressing on blaming your parents.

spidersouristoday at 9:11 PM

It is both amazing and saddening to me how you can have such an arrogant view of a whole field with just taking a 101 course.

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SubmarineClubtoday at 9:32 PM

It’s pretty handy as a signal. The moment someone starts banging on about Jungian this and Freud that, I know immediately to discount anything they say, ever.

hoherdtoday at 8:56 PM

But the answer to bad science is good science.

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datakantoday at 8:56 PM

A lot of them contradict each other too which is what got me going down the rabbit hole of researching it.