Re:Cargo Cult Science (1974)
by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:13AM
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I’m a fan of Psychohistory, myself. Has a strong Foundation in science, and is Seldon found to be incorrect...
I’ll just get my coat...
Re:Cargo Cult Science (1974)
by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:52AM
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I feel that Asimov's Zeroth Law was always go for the pun. Several short stories I remember were basically just leading up to a bad pun.
Coat not required :-)
Re:Cargo Cult Science (1974)
by Stratoscope on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:41AM
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Now you're just telling me a Shah Guido G. story.
Basically it's - we have these constantly on monitoring devices, phones, watches, alexa, video - we can collect constant human behavioural data - and given the right regulatory framework (ie this is medical data treat it like that) we should see enormous commonalities (correlations) between millions of people.
Psychology should then become a field of epidemiology- as opposed to limited behavioural studies in lab conditions.
Maybe psychology just has not had enough in the field data?