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by plastic_enjoyer 865 days ago
Oh look, it's another article shitting on psychology and declaring the discipline dead, where the author has obviously never looked beyond the scope of social psychology.
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In other news, software engineering as a discipline is dead because Windows used to crash a lot!
Didn't Ian Sommerville actually say in a blog post that he thought he had "wasted his time". Very sad.

SE is an amazing aspiration, but I often think we've seen half a century where it's impact has been negligible outside a handful of high stakes safety critical systems (and not even there these days: Boeing etc)

At least its impact on general societal health and culture has not been negligible... to put it nicely.
Came here to say this, glad you beat me to it. Maybe more buttoned-down sub-fields of psych should secede so they don’t have to be associated with the social and evo folks.