BLA2143

1. Human sciences are "fuzzy" sciences, but they are still sciences.
Western Hero: "Psychology: Science or Not?" []

Psychology isn't science. Why can we definitively say that? Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiable, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducible and, finally, predictability and test ability. This violates the law because it is saying that psychology does not have testable factors, which is incorrect because psychologist can put sensors to a patients head and read their brain waves, that can be recorded.

2. Science requires data.
"We don't need more data scientist-- just make big data easier to use." Scott Brave [] "While difficult to generalize, there are three main roles served by the data scientist: data architecture, machine learning, and analytics. While these roles are important, the fact is that not every company actually needs a highly specialized data team of the sort you’d find at Google or Facebook." This violates the law because he says that companies don't need specialist just for data, however if the company just uses regular people for their research teams, they won't know if their data is accurate.

3. Science runs on careful criticism.
Western Hero: Psychology: Science or Not? [] I saw many great arguments against psychology being a science and few good arguments for. Many arguments for psychology as a science were apologetic in nature, excusing quite obvious shortfalls. This is a violation because they did not

4. Fight fire with fire, and data with data.
 Western Hero: Psychology: Science or Not?  [] Undoubtedly there are aspects of both psychiatry and psychology that are indeed scientific. There are distinct conditions with objectively measurable criteria by which a determinable diagnosis can be made. These conditions are usually related to genetics and manifest themselves physically in chemical, hormonal, and physiological measurable ways. On the other hand, there are aspects of both psychology and psychiatry that manifest themselves in ways that are totally subjective. This is a violation because they are not fighting the comments with data, just more words. They need to add facts and stats to prove their points.

5. There's power in precise terms.
My uncle "Homosexuality is completely a choice." He should not say this because there are many other factors to homosexuality and what causes it. My uncle should say that it is PARTLY a choice not fully.

6. Correlation is not causation.
"Religion A Cause Of Crime? Correlation Does Not Imply Causation." Youtube. N.p., 21 February 2012. Web. <[]> 13 June 2013. Someone has come to think that religious beliefs cause crime. However, this person should be careful because the correlation between crime and religion does not necessarily mean it is the complete causation for crime and violence.

7. More of something good isn't always better.
In Psychology we learned about the three types of sleep a person's body is, there were larks (people who sleep early and wake early) owl (stays up late and sleeps late) or superhuman (sleep very little and functions). I can be considered a superhuman and more sleep may not always be better in my case.

8. Beware the plausible, __especially__ if it works.
People believing that Polio was caused by icecream. Jumping to a conclusion that icecream was causing children to contract Polio, it makes sense because the disease is most dangerous to children and is more prominent in summer time people jumped to the conclusion that it was icecream. However they did not look at all the factors.

9. Where there's smoke, there's smoke.
"Casey Anthony Judge: There Was Enough To Convict" [] The judge believes that there was "enough evidence" to accuse Casey Anthony of the murder of her child. Although there were speculations that she was the one to blame, there was not enough evidence in the case. The judge and many others may believe that she did kill her daughter, however the lack of evidence fights the perspectives of these people.

10. La ck of evidence doesn't mean it's false.
Why psychology isn't science by: Alex Berezow [] "The dismissive attitude scientists have toward psychologists isn't rooted in snobbery; it's rooted in intellectual frustration. It's rooted in the failure of psychologists to acknowledge that they don't have the same claim on secular truth that the hard sciences do. It's rooted in the tired exasperation that scientists feel when non-scientists try to pretend they are scientists. That's right. Psychology isn't science. Why can we definitively say that? Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability." This violates the law because they are saying that the entire field of psychology is not a true science based on a few factors, however they are not looking at all the evidence.