Isaac

Are you really that fucking stupid? Jeff earns about £1 billion a week. Out of work benefits are about £300. That's a few million times more. There is...

Something about ketchup? Cool.

I'm really not sure what you think I could do. I was a researcher for most of my career. Now I mainly help organisations include human factors in thei...

I meant the the meaning of the word was conserved, not the truth of the entire proposition. “I know England is gonna win tomorrow” is a claim - that m...

I have absolutely no idea what any of that means, but I'm delighted by the complete absurdity of it all. I sincerely hope it has no connection to the ...

But they don't do nothing, we've just established that. They do very little, and they get very little - the exact amount determined by the organisatio...

Right. So the government who pays the benefits determines the value. The five minutes of work done by those on benefits is valued by the government (t...

It's your definition of 'work hard' that's bullshit. You're just including in that definition everything that's done under standard western capitalism...

You've not answered the question. How are you measuring value?

You were talking about hours worked, now you're talking about value. It would help if you remained consistent. What is it that you are using to measur...

See my edit above. They don't need to work 40hrs a week, why would they? What is it about 40hrs that's so special? Equal value in - equal value out, t...

They're not unwilling to support themselves. as I've said, they vote for governments who pay them benefits, they shop for food, make dinner, attend th...

Ah, bullshit then. Thought so.

That's just moving the goalposts. If they didn't do the advocacy themselves, they still lobbied and voted for a government who provided them. Somehow ...

What level of apathy? Are you suggesting that there's some objective relationship between work and remuneration? If Jeff Bezos works, lets be generous...

So do benefit recipients. The government pays them to keep themselves alive and available for work. They do so. So do benefit recipients. They success...

I know. Hence my corrective. Those who refuse to sweep the sidewalk are of no different a type. Everyone tries to do as little unpleasant work as poss...

I agree entirely. We should start with Jeff Bezos, I think, might as well start with the biggest drain first. The benefits he receives in terms of all...

Ignore @"Banno"'s dramatics. The problem is only a mundane linguistic one. We say "I know the capital of France is Paris", we also say "I thought I kn...

Why is lobbying a government to pay your wage out of taxation income not allowed then? This, surely, is a 'skill' which secures a wage by its exercise...

But your opinion is still here is it not? Very much in print and in its full 'alternate' majesty. Do you notice any deletions? Nothing of alternate op...

You're right. Nothing here but constantly shifting ground and a willful ignorance of what psychology actually entails. But the essence is this... If y...

Until you correct this there's no point in further discussion. Virtually every university in the world offers psychology (or some cognitive equivalent...

An interesting connection I've not made before. There are a number of issues with the Boulder Method which I think would run counter to the model as w...

You're absolutely right, of course, but I did ask him to look at the papers (though I should not have), so feel obliged to, so... You claimed psycholo...

Exactly. Instead of making wild accusations and then expecting one's opposition to do all the legwork to prove you wrong, why don't you actually troub...

Yes, that is precisely what I'm saying. Even without psychology proper (the academic field of research) we observe the behaviour of others, see how it...

Or am I? We couldn't possibly infer my mental state from my actions, that'd be basically witchcraft.

Let's not then. What would you replace that power with. Criminals all get treated the same regardless of their mental health? The judge just guesses? ...

Psychology could cure cancer, find the Holy Grail, and win England the World Cup and it's reputation would remain unaltered amoung the ranks of the bi...

Please, you're embarrassing yourself. Blue=research with scientific methodology. Yellow=research with unscientific methodology. Paint the wall both ye...

Fair enough. This is only what I would call awareness. Psyche, as far as Psychology is concerned is the entire set of functions carried out to derive ...

Are anger and defensiveness not aspects of the psyche? You seem to be saying here that you can do psychology but psychologists can't. I think I unders...

As I said to @"unenlightened", and have clearly evidenced using the example of Cambridge School of Psychology, psychology considers itself the study o...

If you can't be bothered to defend your defamation of an entire field of research, perhaps consider not publishing it.

1. Quote an expert claiming that the whole of psychology is not a science and we might then have something to go off, other wise bringing up expert te...

Did you think that was in some doubt? What an utterly stupid thing to say - your chosen side in any controversy is automatically right simply by virtu...

Well said. Apart from the rather nebulous use of 'insight', I couldn't agree more. As can be seen clearly from the research the Cambridge School of Ps...

For fuck's sake. https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/research/research-centres What of that list looks anything even vaguely resembling Jung and Freud. Do y...

The very title of the web page shows that you fond a list of 'personality theorists', not a list of psychologists. His are we to take this as anything...

Indeed. Psychology has a unique challenge in that respect with regards to the small proportion of its theories that become part of mainstream culture....

What form does that consideration take? As far as I read it, @"Kenosha Kid" was suggesting that the balance was in favour of peace, after having consi...

I see. Then... I'm not going to open the whole systemic racism debate again, but that seems to be our difference.

Well for a start they have the DSM, but aside from that, I really don't see how further unifying the criteria (even if it could be done) will help red...

Yes, definitely a very difficult and contentious issue in clinical psychology. What do you propose as an alternative?

Who said anything about not accepting the possibility? I'm talking about one's choice when presented with a range of such possibilities. I could hardl...

Yeah, I didn't mean the quip as a personal insult, but the logic here is childlike, even if the personalities aren't. Who isn't!

That they're defunct doesn't lend any support to your theory. There are lots of defunct theories in physics too. The aspect of your theory which most ...

It's the second part I'm having trouble reconciling. How is 'staying to dominate them' not racism? We still seem to have this picture of a large power...