28. "that is all babble" In response to In response to 17 Mon May-20-24 04:10 PM by fif
"more in common"? do they? what does this mean?
psychology is NOT a science, sorry yall. what falsifiable claims does it make about people? it has almost no predictive power about individuals. it lumps people into good enough categories. can this be helpful? yes. can this lead to people concretizing hazy notions about themselves and other people? yes. do you think the DSM-10 is going to look much like the DSM-5? the DSM-III came out in 1980 and tried to nail a lot down...and look how it all keeps shifting. it doesn't work well across cultures, it doesn't work well as social norms have rapidly shifted. it is better for some things than others. it provides frameworks, it is not describing the way matter moves in the world, it is not looking at humans the way biologists look at cells.
this is not as settled as many of you think. my point in speaking up is not to dismiss all of psychology whole cloth, but to push back against view like the one above. look at the curriculum psychologists take to get certified. it doesnt give them special powers.