>>12868231Social psychology studies are the most boring in the world. It's at the bottom of the academic barrel. Sometime I think it's even worse than shit like critical race theory and fat studies and other post-modern/neo-continental philosophy type shit. At least they are somewhat creative and inflammatory. For example, they have to find new ways of describing everyday phenomenon as racist, sexist, homophobic - so in that sense they can be seen as a silly intellectual exercise. But social psychology is simply mundane dogshit, dressed up in sophisticated terminology, along with some empirical studies and rudimentary statistical work thrown in. They literally publish studies that say shit like "Evidence that Shoppers Spend More Time and Money in Stores that Describe as Clean and Welcoming: A statistical Multivariate Analysis". They literally spend thousands of dollars and months of research to come up with assertions like 'hungry people eat more food than not hungry people'.
Absolute nonsense. The worst part is that social psychology is one of the most cited and most well funded areas of academia. It probably gets more funding and more citations than subjects like math, physics, or evolutionary biology at most universities. If you look at the departments with the most researchers and the most funding, and the papers and professors with the most citations, they're usually doing machine learning, statistics, AI, medicine, or social psychology (just check out Google scholar if you want to see for yourself). And machine learning statistics, and AI, are all just applied probability theory, so basically the three biggest areas of research in academia are applied probability, medicine, and social psychology. It's a sad situation. Universities should be run by mathematicians, biologists, physicists, and philosophers, not engineers, doctors, and psychologists.
