"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, July 6, 2009
As Freud Said, Sometimes a Pretentious Blockhead is Just a Pretentious Blockhead
As a science, Psychology has argued itself out of existence. It is no more objective than literary criticism. Its academic field is now fully covered by Neurology (plus Ethology) so it has no reason to exist independent of that more rigorous (falsifiable) study. It should have been dumped in the same bin as Phrenology except that, excuse me here ladies, the hordes of chicks invading academia all want to do Psych101 to find out how their boyfriends think.
bruce -- ixnay on the phrenology comparison. wronwright already flinches when we bring out the mallet... (hey, it was Paco's idea that if we changed the bumps on the head, we could change the behavior...)
As a science, Psychology has argued itself out of existence. It is no more objective than literary criticism. Its academic field is now fully covered by Neurology (plus Ethology) so it has no reason to exist independent of that more rigorous (falsifiable) study. It should have been dumped in the same bin as Phrenology except that, excuse me here ladies, the hordes of chicks invading academia all want to do Psych101 to find out how their boyfriends think.
ReplyDeleteTo clarify - or dig myself in a bit deeper perhaps - as some movies are chick flicks, Psych is 'chick science'.
ReplyDeleteTruer words are seldom spoke, Bruce.
ReplyDeleteSays a (former) chick who thought exactly that way about 40 years ago, but has had the distinct pleasure of growing up since then.
bruce -- ixnay on the phrenology comparison. wronwright already flinches when we bring out the mallet... (hey, it was Paco's idea that if we changed the bumps on the head, we could change the behavior...)
ReplyDeleteOh, so that's what happened to Thor's Hammer?
ReplyDeleteCheck out the WV:
phella.
I think it's a Freudian slip!
"hey, it was Paco's idea that if we changed the bumps on the head, we could change the behavior..."
ReplyDeleteHey, and you think that didn't work?