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Moont1de t1_iwn1irb wrote

Reply to comment by SnooPuppers1978 in New psychology research rebuts Sigmund Freud's "wrecked by success" hypothesis: People with exceptionally successful careers tend to be healthier than their less successful peers by HeinieKaboobler

Yes, but there are other things to fix, such as better defining "healthier" (in what timeframe?), and better defining "peers" . Presumably, if you change to exceptionally well-paid, peers would be everyone else that gets paid.

"People who make more money usually present better overall health indicators" doesn't make for a very striking headline, though.

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thruster_fuel69 t1_iwn76ht wrote

It's just like, some psychology, man.

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Moont1de t1_iwngliw wrote

It’s bad psychology

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thruster_fuel69 t1_iwni1ze wrote

Science confirms or refutes obvious things all the time, that's still not bad science, just boring to some.

Isn't that your same point here, that it's boring/pointless, and that makes it bad?

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Moont1de t1_iwnixi9 wrote

This is a waste of resources that could've been spent somewhere actually productive for advancing the frontier of human psychological knowledge

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thruster_fuel69 t1_iwnkird wrote

Knowing a truth isn't a waste, they add up to greater discoveries. Are you sure it's not a personal grudge against psychology?

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Moont1de t1_iwnlv35 wrote

Resources are limited and this has already been studied before, it is entirely wasteful.

It is precisely and exactly why I respect psychology as a field of scholarly work that I am calling this bad psychology

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