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What the fuck did I just read
13 years ago
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Ok, as some of you may know, I'm currently working on a study with a professor at the university I just graduated from (ongoing thing, we started when I was still an undergrad). It is a meta-analysis, which means we're pulling together experimental data from dozens of different studies and analyzing it. As such, I'm reading through dozens of psych studies and dissertations, coding these articles so we know what sort of data we can pull from each later on.
I got about 6 pages into this massive 226 page dissertation before I had to stop. It was a dissertation on parapsychology, or, basically, psychic phenomenon. A fucking 226 page dissertation about how we have the psychic ability to influence random events.
This person used this dissertation to graduate with a Ph.D.
Goddamnit, I hate people.
I skipped over to the results section and was completely unsurprised to see that they found nothing significant at all.
How the fuck do people get away with this? It's this sort of shit that makes people not take psychology as a science seriously. I mean, if you're interested in this sort of thing, if you really believe in psychic powers, fine, go for it. I'll quietly judge you, but go for it. Don't demean an entire branch of science by graduating with a Ph.D after writing a dissertation on the subject. That graduate committee should have either set this author on fire or have been drop-kicked out the window themselves. And let me get clear: I think it's great for science to test and disprove myths about the paranormal. Testing these things are a part of the scientific process. I just don't think it wise to do so repeatedly after it's already been proven to be nonsense. This dissertation was published in the year 2000!
GAH.
I got about 6 pages into this massive 226 page dissertation before I had to stop. It was a dissertation on parapsychology, or, basically, psychic phenomenon. A fucking 226 page dissertation about how we have the psychic ability to influence random events.
This person used this dissertation to graduate with a Ph.D.
Goddamnit, I hate people.
I skipped over to the results section and was completely unsurprised to see that they found nothing significant at all.
How the fuck do people get away with this? It's this sort of shit that makes people not take psychology as a science seriously. I mean, if you're interested in this sort of thing, if you really believe in psychic powers, fine, go for it. I'll quietly judge you, but go for it. Don't demean an entire branch of science by graduating with a Ph.D after writing a dissertation on the subject. That graduate committee should have either set this author on fire or have been drop-kicked out the window themselves. And let me get clear: I think it's great for science to test and disprove myths about the paranormal. Testing these things are a part of the scientific process. I just don't think it wise to do so repeatedly after it's already been proven to be nonsense. This dissertation was published in the year 2000!
GAH.
I'l bet if you look into the author, his dad was the bazillionair type.
This is why our country is run by idiots. The schooling standards for the elite that eventually end up leading us are lowered simply because they're the elite; It should be the other way around, but it's not. This is why the country is in a state of decline.
Also, you're simultaneously over-complicating and over-simplifying things. Good job. :U