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ramblenode on Aug 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programmer, interrupted (2013)

The field of modern Psychology exists because introspection is unreliable.

12010981 on Aug 28, 2016 [–]

So introspection is replaced by studies that mostly focus on a single aspect of a complex system, analyzed by people who don't know MANOVA and just do p-value fishing in Excel.

I'm with Feynman on Psychology.

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