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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by candiodari on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:21AM (#27246782)
psych is questionable for basic reasons. It is a humanities science. It's purpose is not to figure out the world but to change it. Figure out how to end poverty for example.

Therefore it is not well suited to figure out the world.

You should treat all of it with extreme helpings of salt.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by hexane360 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:41PM (#27249157)
Can't this be applied to wide swaths of hard sciences as well? Lots of scientific work overlaps heavily with engineering, which is all about changing the world.

Also, I don't think ending poverty is a major stated goal of psychology research. . .

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