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Posted by Domesticated on May-12-2009 02:05:

quote:
Originally posted by ziptnf
It's too hot for a penguin.

I'm glad someone got the reference.

Posted by PETRAN on May-12-2009 15:22:

quote:
Originally posted by squirrelly
I suppose so. Although I rather think that if you are going into the field of Psychology with the intention of discovery is one thing, and going in with the intention of simply "advising" is another.

Exactly. There can be a lot of "bullshiting" with fields such as "counselling", "personality theory", etc. but the more "empirical", "naturalistic" psychology such as experimental, bio-, neuro-, cognitive, evolutionary etc. is more challenging.

Posted by gehzumteufel on May-12-2009 16:05:

quote:
Originally posted by PETRAN
Exactly. There can be a lot of "bullshiting" with fields such as "counselling", "personality theory", etc. but the more "empirical", "naturalistic" psychology such as experimental, bio-, neuro-, cognitive, evolutionary etc. is more challenging.

No doubt, but the general public doesn't go into that part of Psychology. They go into the bullshit side, just to say they got a degree.

Posted by Meat187 on May-12-2009 16:12:

Regarding Psychology, check out this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel

This guy successfully managed to pretend to be a psychiatrist for years.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jun-28-2009 18:54:

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People who make their livings in "soft" sciences and the arts are not entirely at ease in the company of chemists and physicists and other "hard" scientists. In such company, the psychologists and sociologists and the professors of English feel like touch-football enthusiasts who have wandered by mistake into the locker room of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

- Richard Mitchell, The Graves of Academe

Posted by Meat187 on Jun-28-2009 18:58:

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles

Abso-fucking-lutely!!!

Posted by SuspicionVandit on Jul-06-2009 06:23:

man fuck soft scientists.

signed,
me

Posted by Damerchi on Jul-06-2009 06:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Regarding Psychology, check out this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel

This guy successfully managed to pretend to be a psychiatrist for years.

here is another pwnage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Posted by trancesept on Jul-06-2009 09:21:

oh yeah lets wave around our education like the big penis we think we have

went to FCPS (6 point grading scale >.<)
went to radford with intent on music but then left before semester ended
went to SAE Institute in Hollywood (im the shit!!!) and got diploma in audio engineering

and now just applied for community college so i can transfer and get a degree in electronics engineering

(cuz yeah, it would be cool to say, i listen to electronic music, im an electronics engineer, and i make electronic music... wait wat?)

since it would make sense that from audio engineering, i can use electronics engineering practical in a field i have some experience in, and do you expect me to pay top dollar just so i can party and fuck girls? im only 20, and over that shit, i just want my degree so my parents will stop nagging me and maybe they will give me one of the three houses they own, so i dont have to pay mortgage, buy a nice car, build a swank studio, have my girl move in, kick back and smoke some herb, make music, and be happy the rest of my life.

Posted by Chimney on Jul-06-2009 09:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Regarding Psychology, check out this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel

This guy successfully managed to pretend to be a psychiatrist for years.

There's a big difference between psychologists and psychiatrists, buba.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-06-2009 15:46:

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Originally posted by Chimney
There's a big difference between psychologists and psychiatrists, buba.

Yes, which is that it would probably be even easier to pretend to be a psychologist. Psychiatrists are at least expected to have some level of medical knowledge.

Posted by tachobg on Jul-06-2009 16:14:

Some psychology departments do legit brain+cognitive science work. From what I've gathered, a lot of it is still considered psychology by the people who work on it, even though other universities might choose to have a separate dept for cog sci. Seems like most people only consider the soft stuff to be psychology.

full disclosure -- I'm math/cs student, but have worked in a lab like that. Admittedly, the topics are fairly high-level (relative to, say, neuroscience) and math that gets used is pretty easy, but that's just because good simple models >> complicated math -- true whether you're doing psych or theoretical physics. It's most definitely legit science though.

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