Speaking of sloppy work, you link to an article on social psychology yet extrapolate the findings to the whole of psychology. You then throw the baby out with the bathwater by claiming the entire thing is useless when it's not.
The nature of psychology lends itself to more fuzzy or fraudulent work, but by saying that psychological research is itself useless, you're also throwing away things like A/B testing, UX testing (including Apple's much-vaunted usability stuff), research into grief management, team-building research, research into cognitive recovery therapy after acquired brain injury, work looking into ameliorating sexism and racism, perception research for HUDs in fighter aircraft (my honours research), some pain management research, research into dealing with PTSD, research into crowd control and management...
... all this (and more) is apparently useless, simply because you've got a chip on your shoulder. Fuck I'm tired of people just taking pot-shots at a soft target that they don't understand and never bother to.
The nature of psychology lends itself to more fuzzy or fraudulent work, but by saying that psychological research is itself useless, you're also throwing away things like A/B testing, UX testing (including Apple's much-vaunted usability stuff), research into grief management, team-building research, research into cognitive recovery therapy after acquired brain injury, work looking into ameliorating sexism and racism, perception research for HUDs in fighter aircraft (my honours research), some pain management research, research into dealing with PTSD, research into crowd control and management...
... all this (and more) is apparently useless, simply because you've got a chip on your shoulder. Fuck I'm tired of people just taking pot-shots at a soft target that they don't understand and never bother to.