I don't think this posted before, apologies if it is a duplicate:

I'm pretty sure the cause of this physics tangent was my
assertion that psychology is no worse off than any of the hard sciences in the
"unsolved problems" department. Hence, if we think physicists and chemists and
biologists have solved scientific problems, then psychologists have done so as
well. In any of these sciences you can push to the point of the unknown, but
you need to wade through a lot of well established stuff to get there.


One big problem for psychology as a field is that psychologists still
have massive physics envy, while not seeming to have any idea how physics
actually works. This is much like the young girl who hates social functions and
public scrutiny, but desperately wants to be a princess; she has bought the
storybook/kids vision of princesshood, and has no idea what the job is really
like. There is plenty of work in psychology that has answered questions through
the scientific process as definitively as any other field. There are also
constructs that could probably be done away with. There are also unknowns. That
is the normal state of a well functioning science. 

That's my assertion
at least.

Eric

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