Psychology is not a fucking science

Just spent like 10 minutes in this field to be more confused than ever again.

First by learning new names of laws again that warp psychological studies without mentioning cognitive biases and what not 

• Goodhart’s Law is most succinct: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
• Campbell’s Law is the most explicit: “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
• The Cobra Effect refers to the way that measures taken to improve a situation can directly make it worse.

and then I started reading this article in the horrible reader’s digest of PsychologyToday (might as well listen to a TED talk eh?) and the more I read the more question I had. 

It was about boy vs girl and a few doubtful statements were made as they do and I had this clever hunch that the whole article was written by a ‘GIRL’ and lo and behold it was!
I am so clever sometimes! J

Then she proceeded in a deeper black hole called morals and that was it I had to check the source and lo and behold again I was right. 

Quelle Surprise!

A seminarian FFS! 

Teaching at Notre-Dame what next?
She is a ‘scientist’ creationist too? 

When you start mixing your so-called science with your archaic pre-conceived matriarchal society beliefs there is no end to where you may end and of course everyone being a fucking Napoleon everyone will have all the rationalisation possible to stand solid on their wrong foundation as one does.

My first alarm bell was when she went like this

·         Boys mature slower physically, socially and linguistically.  CHECK!

·         Stress-regulating brain circuitries mature slower in boys prenatally, perinatally and postnatally.  MAYBE

·         Boys are affected more negatively by early environmental stress, inside and outside the womb, than are girls. Girls have more built-in mechanisms that foster resiliency against stress.  WHATTTTTTTTTTT?

Everybody does that, the JWs are one of my best examples they bring one or two truths to get your confidence and then bury you in dubious facts to confuse the fuck out of you.

. Girls have more built-in mechanisms that foster resiliency against stress.  FFS

Where did you get that one now? 

My first thought going on how extremely complex and warped a mother daughter relationship can be at times and that to me there are just as many fucked-up females as there are males, 

each having just their peculiar way of being fucked-up.  

And yes in a matriarchal society of course the outcome would be warped for both.

 
As Freud said if it’s not one thing, it’s your mother! J

To begin with any of those studies absolutely cannot “not be biased” as the sex of the author will warp a lot of preconceived ideas as it was so obvious in this short text.

Anyway what is the word I learnt and forgot already now? Will have to stick to dilettante now damn memory it was such a nice word too.

SCIOLIST! 

YES! Thank fuck for browsing history in the age of Alzheimer’s.

One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding. 

I is a sciolist! :) 

She is also an expert on circumcision would you believe and on breast feeding as well extremely popular apparently too but that has always been a bad sign to me too.

Genetic determinism is so 20^th century. In the 21^st century, we now know that epigenetics are involved in most outcomes: experience shapes how and whether a gene is expressed or activated. Humans are the most epigenetically shapeable creatures, making violent disposition a matter of experience. In early life, humans are the most epigenetically plastic (with only 25% of adult brain size in place) (Narvaez, Panksepp, Schore & Gleason, 2013).

The more I read the more I wanna puke.  Home birth Jesus had one etc and this here

The table shows that every study is flawed-  (she says)
except mine of course as always.

Psychology and much of science I am afraid is very much like art;

a field of inflated egos full of hot air valuating nothingness and ignorance.

I am glad I got this blog to hide behind as of course I would be awkwardly silent in a head to head debate with many but debates don’t prove shit, both parties go back home as convinced as they were when they entered.  Hot air is hot air no matter what you call it and like in religion here there is a stench of pre conceived ideas first and then looking for evidence to support my proud and arrogant and foolish stand backed up as always by a few sycophants.

• Goodhart’s Law is most succinct: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
• Campbell’s Law is the most explicit: “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
• The Cobra Effect refers to the way that measures taken to improve a situation can directly make it worse.

P.S. Just a short note here to remark that a site I used to love very much just like everything else is suffering from catalytic entropy.

The article in Wikipedia could not be more self-praising and biased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcia_Narvaez

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Flint  "forgets"  to mention that

On January 13, 2016, Snyder said that 87 cases of Legionnaires' disease, a waterborne disease, were reported in Genesee County from June 2014 – November 2015, resulting in 10 deaths. Although the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said that there is no evidence of a clear link between the spike in cases and the water system change,^[3] Edwards stated the contaminated Flint water could be linked to the spike, telling reporters:

It's very possible that the conditions in the Flint River water contributed. We've actually predicted earlier this year that the conditions present in Flint would increase the likelihood of Legionnaires' disease. We wrote a proposal on that to the National Science Foundation that was funded, and we visited Flint and did two sampling events. The first one was focused on single family homes or smaller businesses. We did not find detectable levels of Legionella bacteria that causes disease in those buildings. But during our second trip, we looked at large buildings, and we found very high levels of Legionella that tends to cause the disease.^[80]

In a second report released January 21, state researchers had still not pin-pointed the source of the outbreak.^[81] The next day, an official at McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint put out a press release that said:

After the City of Flint switched to the Flint River as its water source in April of 2014, we noticed an increase in the number of Legionella cases that were coming to McLaren for treatment, as well as those being reported across the county and at other hospitals. Because of that concern, and concern over the quality of water that we were receiving from the city, we began aggressively testing our water supply. An early test result indicated the presence of a low level Legionella. All Legionella and lead testing continues to show that the McLaren Flint water supply is well within safety and quality standards. It is important to note that no test have ever determined that McLaren is the source of exposure for any patients testing positive for the Legionella antigen, and that there is no definitive data to support that McLaren Flint is the source of exposure for any patient testing positive for the Legionella antigen.^[82]

Casually mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

Well mentioned for now until Winston Smith gets to it to ‘correct’ it.