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My apologies, I didn’t mean to imply you never run RCTs, mostly that it’s rarer that other disciplines and most of what lay people know of your science comes from non RCT work. I’ll have to take a peak at that paper you linked as it looks interesting.

Your point on natural experiments is on point as they are dreams come true for many social scientists (thought sadly not always pleasant ones in recent times).

I also have to agree this post is pure rage bait. People dunk on social sciences all the time but would have their brains melt trying to learn Structural Equation Modeling and the concept of the Latent variable. My arguments with economists usually comes from my place as an IO psychologist who argues about labour and labour markets not if your science is real. It’s sad how many will look st economics as useless in the same breadth they venerate figures like Marx. People need more education not less.

And the outrage over Floyd was in the same city and erupted even more aggressively. The citizens are being more strategic and thoughtful in their dissent this time so it may be more learning than a difference in specific response. While race does change the narrative you’re very right that the visibility of the incident seems to be a major factor in the outrage and bridging of the action-intention gap.

Gary Stevenson is also an overconfident blow hard who thinks because he made money on the stock market he knows more than everyone. I’m a psychologist not an economist, I don’t like economics, but this is all still wildly off base from what actually happens in academia. Economist don’t run randomized control trial (RCT) style experiments. They use completely different techniques with different statistical methods to test assumptions. Are these as high quality for causal reasoning as a RCT study? No absolutely not. However I think the average person would be shocked at how much of every field of science does not confirm their studies to that gold standard and how difficult it is to match that exact specific scenario statistically.

Glad to see its been so good for you, if you have any recommend resources that would be nice

I’ve never done neural feedback myself so I’ll have to look into it. Medication is only partially effective on me but doesn’t help with me improving my behaviours just reducing harmful ones. Probably even if I took meds as a kid it wouldn’t have been life changing, everyone is different in that way

That’s just what they want you think /s

Oh it wasn’t as rough as it could have been. My parents did it mostly out of concern that everyone was trying to medicate me first and help me second. I’m much older now and doing my own doctorat in Psychology, so I think I mostly turned out alright.

You’re really a condescending prick you know that? You talk to people in person like this?

The worst part for me is I was diagnosed at like 10 and my parents just went “nah” and forgot for 17 years until I got diagnosed again on my own

I can second this as an organizational psychologist. They are almost always anonymous, the ones that aren’t are considered exceptional poor practice.

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I think you’ll enjoy either game really if you end up liking the setting. They are great ways to get introduced as most other options (besides books)focus just on gameplay with setting and story being an afterthought.

I doubt they will connect as I’m fairly certain they take part in different sections of the galaxy

Yeah, having an abundance of nuclear power is good regardless of the economic system as long as it’s done safely.

God bless, fighting the good fight

Well yeah any economic system requires government oversight to be effective but that’s because there isn’t really a decoupling of government and economics. Our current governments around the world are primarily representative democratic nation states and they are neoliberal capitalist institutions. These are not separate, both have evolved alongside each other and we are currently seeing them crack under pressure together. There is no point in making this distinction at the macro level.

Didn’t know the dude at the liquor store you flashed your ID to was rocking the meta raybands

That is under the purview of my field of science (Industrial Organization Psychology), so it can be plenty scientific. However looking at her bio she is not an IO psychologist and has no formal training on the subject so take anything she says with a grain of salt.

You don’t store and track who buys alcohol by that ID when you go to a shop, you just show them it