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Re:The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram by juped on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:38AM (#40913782)
It means you can ask people on a questionnaire "are you open to new experiences" and then later offer them a new experience and get some papers off this incredibly shocking finding.

Someday psychology might be a science but it isn't now; it just rejected its alchemical mystics like it saw the cool sciences doing, but without any paradigm to follow them.

Re:The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram by dbspin on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:44AM (#40914959)
You'll be shocked when you realise that neuroimaging is entirely based on the results of cognitive measurements. i.e.: correlations between whats in the image and the kinds of tests you're traducing.
Re:The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram by demondemidi on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @08:55AM (#40915529)
Fallacy. Just because your preferred belief framework has no supporting evidence or research doesn’t mean an actual science that you don’t like isn’t actual science. In other words, you can create your own alternative facts but they still aren’t facts.
Re:The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram by juped on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:16AM (#40924183)
I am not sure what "preferred belief framework" you are projecting onto me, but you may be interested to note that I mentioned no such thing.

The findings of psychology tend to be unreplicable just-so stories, like all the findings so popular in pop-psychology books that failed to replicate in the 2010s, or journal-filling tautologies, like "Big 5" papers showing introversion correlates with introversion or what have you.

Alchemy reformed into chemistry. You can make real sciences out of mysticism. Psychology is not a real science reformed out of mysticism, it's just academic bureaucracy set up like the ones associated with real sciences, producing useless papers.

Please don't enact your personal psychodrama on random people on the Internet, or at least don't do it to me.

Re:The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram by demondemidi on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:06AM (#40924398)
> Please don't enact your personal psychodrama on random people on the Internet

I wouldn't dream of competing with you.