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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is a real science

Psychology gains knowledge through experience

Knowledge is the end product which science strives to find. It can be gained not only by logic, but by experience as well.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is a real science

Psychology can predict human behaviors

Just as hard sciences can predict outcomes based on their findings, so can psychology predict human behaviors based on experience.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is not a real science

Psychology's findings are inconclusive

Even though psychology follows the scientific method, the conclusions that it reaches are only theoretical at best.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is not a real science

Researchers can fudge their results

The conclusions reached by researchers in psychology can be altered to suit the needs of the researcher and can be unreliable.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is a science, but not a hard one

Psychology studies only abstract phenomenons.

Psychology studies human behavior, which is an intangible product of the mind.

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Is alternative medicine effective?

No, alternative medicine is not effective

If a treatment does work, it becomes orthodox medicine

Alternative medicine doesn't work - if it did, it would just be mainstream medicine.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is not a real science

Psychology doesn't have an agreed upon central body of knowledge

Unlike each of the hard sciences, psychology fails to deliver a concrete body of knowledge that is universally agreed upon by professionals in the field.

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Is psychology a real science?

Psychology is a real science

Psychology follows the scientific method

Psychology follows the same steps to obtaining conclusions as in any scientific field. Therefore it is, by definition, a science.

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