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Re:Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Method... by plastic_enjoyer on Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:54PM (#39252555)
Oh look, it's another article shitting on psychology and declaring the discipline dead, where the author has obviously never looked beyond the scope of social psychology.
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Re:Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Method... by dmvdoug on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:56PM (#39253745)
Came here to say this, glad you beat me to it. Maybe more buttoned-down sub-fields of psych should secede so they don’t have to be associated with the social and evo folks.
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Re:Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Method... by hkt on Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:27PM (#39252891)
In other news, software engineering as a discipline is dead because Windows used to crash a lot!
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Re:Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Method... by nonrandomstring on Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:46PM (#39253082)
Didn't Ian Sommerville actually say in a blog post that he thought he had "wasted his time". Very sad.

SE is an amazing aspiration, but I often think we've seen half a century where it's impact has been negligible outside a handful of high stakes safety critical systems (and not even there these days: Boeing etc)

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Re:Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Method... by RGamma on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:53PM (#39253721)
At least its impact on general societal health and culture has not been negligible... to put it nicely.
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