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[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (20 children)

I would argue that the zodiac is the proto-science of psychology.

This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 36 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Faulty pattern recognition isn't something we should be holding on to.

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that we still don't have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What hard sciences could replace economics and sociology? They're not very rigorous, but they seem to be useful. Psychology also takes some load off psychiatrists

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Astrology is also useful.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So is palm reading; for grifters.

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