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Subject:Re: Governments gone bad: your laws or mine? (1/4)
Date:Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:16:08 -0400
From:Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
Newsgroups:alt.education,alt.atheism,alt.feminazis,alt.bible.prophecy,alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights
Jd <jday123@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>You and Dave for some reason, don't think the psycology is a
>science.

Because most psychologists do not practice the scientific method.
Psychological studies that pretend to be science do an abysmal job of
tracking and controlling independent variables.  Meanwhile, what the
guy does in his office with clients is treatment and not research, so
it cannot be science.

>I think you guys think only math, biology and physics
>qualify as "science" and all sociologist, psycologists, and any
>other person who operates in the arena of the social sciences is
>not really operating by your prescribed tennets of "science"
>since their work is often subjective and unverifiable. 

By golly, he has a clue!
 
>For the record, do you think psycologists are true "scientists"
>or not? Yes or no.

With rare exceptions, no.

lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
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