>>10864436Look, Im not an expert, I would classify neuroscience as a truly scientific endeavor for trying to figure out the structure/ function of the brain.
Psychology is not at a scientific stage right now. There is nothing wrong with this, astrology and alchemy served as precursors to to the genuinely scientific fields of astronomy and chemistry respectively. Its just not there.
The main issue is that experiments are not reproducible: a psychological experiment depends on so many variables depending on how exactly the experiment is set up, the past history of the subjects, that makes replicating results is a crapshoot. This lack of control over variables in your experiments, plagues the social sciences (economics, sociology having it even worse), which limits the reproducibility of these experiments. This seems to be very common when studying complicated systems with many complex, correlated variables (in this case brains).
Just because you use confidence levels like a big boy doesn't make the experiments meaningful: the most experiments can say is that for a small group of people, people (who often self-select, by volunteering) behave in X way to Y stimulus, to whatever confidence level. Tough to infer very much
I have nothing but respect for the attempt though: the human brain is the most complicated object in the universe that we know of. I dont expect it to be really resolved in my lifetime
