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COVxy posted...

The replication crisis extends across all scientific domains, not just psychology. Psychology is just the field at the forefront of trying to understand it and make changes to the scientific culture to ensure better practices.

The difference with psychology is that there is not a core foundation to rest upon. I'm thinking of Force = Mass * Acceleration or the fact that mixing certain elements together at certain temperatures and pressures will cause known chemical reactions.

Its always been common knowledge in psychology that many prominent theories of the past have ended up being nonsense (Think Freud). With the current replication crisis in psychology you now know that even most of the very scientific sounding studies that have been produced up the present day are also simply false.

The fact is that if a person had got a bachelors in psychology in 1988 or 2018 most of what they learned was just plain wrong. The big list of psychological conditions and theories they memorized was mostly about as valid and true as theories about astrological signs. Now they learned other skills like paper writing and statistics and they exercised their minds even if the things they were learning were mostly fluff so I wouldn't call the degree useless but honestly I would place more value on a degree in philosophy or history than on psychology because you aren't going to come to find out that most of the cute little theories you learned about how the human mind works were bullshit.