One of the key criticisms of psychology is that it’s not, and by some arguments could never be, a “hard science” like math or physics, where you can express a hypothesis, test it, and then have clear indications as to whether your supposition was supported or not.
This is a great model of criticism of our collective efforts. I have a very idiosyncratic style or idiolect, but not because I am carving out a career, nor a brand as an influencer, but because I am mildly autistic trying to find some commonality. I have the opposite vector on the same issue.
The toothbrush problem is related to my notice that a lot of what I call science essay books, whether they introduce yet another theory of eeeeeveeeeerythingggg or not, is that they cover the same ground and that many books could just refer to a common consensus code-base and then fork it with their little perspective. It would save a few trees and a lot of bits, and time. I known the publishing industry requires this in order to have an excuse to actually publish a 'monograph' but really, we could all save time if we coalesced the commonalities (the introductory matter is too long) into a git-style repository model and fork the novelty. Too much of these books go over the same ground for too long, admittedly I might have read too many of them.
Current example of this is "A theory of everyone : who we are, how we got here, and where we're going" / Michael Muthukrishna ISBN 9781399810630 Basic Book 2023 London. Its like 90% introductory matter, good if you want an introduction, but couldn't it come with a number, a fork-label and a weighting? I skimmed it, but which bit was the interesting bit, which was their bit? Didn't see it.
The same could be done with a flow-chart-y methodology/ontology/epistemology frameworks in these softer sciences, it would work a bit like those POW jokes where prisoners just say a number and everybody laughs, because everyone knows the jokes so well only an index is required...
This could be mapped to erstwhile attempts to toothbrush the known jokes with a re-branding, "oh, that's just joke 22 with a new gen z skin..., let's call it 22z."
it would be a cross between git and wikipedia style resources (looks over his shoulder at AI).
This is a great model of criticism of our collective efforts. I have a very idiosyncratic style or idiolect, but not because I am carving out a career, nor a brand as an influencer, but because I am mildly autistic trying to find some commonality. I have the opposite vector on the same issue.
The toothbrush problem is related to my notice that a lot of what I call science essay books, whether they introduce yet another theory of eeeeeveeeeerythingggg or not, is that they cover the same ground and that many books could just refer to a common consensus code-base and then fork it with their little perspective. It would save a few trees and a lot of bits, and time. I known the publishing industry requires this in order to have an excuse to actually publish a 'monograph' but really, we could all save time if we coalesced the commonalities (the introductory matter is too long) into a git-style repository model and fork the novelty. Too much of these books go over the same ground for too long, admittedly I might have read too many of them.
Current example of this is "A theory of everyone : who we are, how we got here, and where we're going" / Michael Muthukrishna ISBN 9781399810630 Basic Book 2023 London. Its like 90% introductory matter, good if you want an introduction, but couldn't it come with a number, a fork-label and a weighting? I skimmed it, but which bit was the interesting bit, which was their bit? Didn't see it.
The same could be done with a flow-chart-y methodology/ontology/epistemology frameworks in these softer sciences, it would work a bit like those POW jokes where prisoners just say a number and everybody laughs, because everyone knows the jokes so well only an index is required...
This could be mapped to erstwhile attempts to toothbrush the known jokes with a re-branding, "oh, that's just joke 22 with a new gen z skin..., let's call it 22z."
it would be a cross between git and wikipedia style resources (looks over his shoulder at AI).