in reply to Re^3: Freedom in the rearview mirror
in thread Freedom in the rearview mirror
No, my point is that this is not the objetive of the psychology science, it doesn't claim to accurately analyse human beings.
Psychology just looks for common high level patterns in human behaviour and then tries to match them on individuals for practical pourposes. As an science it is just applied statistics, a foundation as solid as that of other sciences like for instance, signal processing...
Obviously there are bad psychologists, actually I would agree that most of them know very little about maths, but most of them know they are copping with uncertainty and that their predictions are just that: predictions, so, they are no so bad after all.
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Re^5: Freedom in the rearview mirror
by jhourcle (Prior) on Jun 05, 2005 at 02:38 UTC | |
by willyyam (Priest) on Jun 06, 2005 at 17:40 UTC | |
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Re^5: Freedom in the rearview mirror
by monarch (Priest) on Jun 05, 2005 at 12:31 UTC |