KarlVonMoor
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I don't like SPSS, MathLab and Math in general!
I started studying psychology to explore human thoughts and other meta-things but this, this is wrong!!!
Feb 15, 2016 7:01 AM
KarlVonMoor
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I started studying psychology to explore human thoughts and other meta-things but this, this is wrong!!!
paulashley
MathLab? Do you mean MATLAB? Or are you talking about the educational tool? Just plug on through this part of your studies, you can do it!
Felberin
At school I pondered if I should go study psychology or computer science. I think I chose right, since as psychologist, I would have been...
Felberin
...more interested to see all the ways how brain can do wrong, rather than trying to make it do right.
Atlasraven
What are the mathy things you have to do as a psychologist?
WalterKrunkite
Lots of statistical tests. Depending on on the research design you can run anything from student t tests to ANOVAs
paulashley
A LOT of stat analysis goes into psych. In fact, quantitative survey methodology courses are frequently taught in ed and psych departments.
glaug
He's making a program to reach into your mind and reprogram you to do his bidding
Atlasraven
I'll never...Here's an upvote because I don't know why.
herbert5
Matlab and Maple are both rotten pieces of shit. Use an actual programming language instead with a math library.
Chirishnique
C is where it is at. But I have a fondness for Mathematica and Maple after "numerical solution of DEs" in final year of college
herbert5
I was thinking something like like python with Ssympy (for DEs and solving other stuff) and matplotlib (for data visualization).
Chirishnique
Python is happiness.
Chirishnique
True that. Touché- but Python can be rather unapproachable for lots of folk.
herbert5
Ah yep, if you want performance do go with C as you said.
Chirishnique
If you hate all of the above - hit up R: statistical programming language. Open source, good community. And less sucky than SAS and SPSS.
Toranagas
I like R and agree, but I think OP's gripe is that he is forced to apply mathematics at all.
Chirishnique
True, but little you can do to avoid it- maybe make the best of a bad situation
Toranagas
I suspect that he is in classes and is forced to use a particular program.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
Don't study psyc specifically. If you're interested in it then study as a minor while getting a BS in something else that's better for you.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
If psyc is still the road you want go down after your bachelors. Master programs don't require a bs is psyc.
WalterKrunkite
Meh. I'm a psychologist and it worked out very well...
TheyCallMeTheDoc
How recent was your BS?
WalterKrunkite
2000. Experimental psychology.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
Different works than now; majority won't high anyone with just a bs in any psyc- that's why a bio/psyc minor or anything else is better
Toranagas
You think it's wrong that your field is finally catching up with the rest of the scientific community?
WalterKrunkite
Psych is catching up with the rest of science? I guess you know nothing about psych.
Toranagas
Perhaps it's more appropriate to say that the scientific method wasn't universally applied until Skinner, so circa 1950.
McDiezel
Do you think it's wrong to try to apply science to the insane variability of the human experience? No... Not wrong. Stupid, that's the word!
Toranagas
Psychology (noun) - The scientific study of the human mind and its functions.
McDiezel
But to compare it to the more concrete, the actual measurable sciences. That's dumb
Toranagas
Actually, phenomenon which are less measurable require more intense statistical analysis. "Concrete" sciences have easy stats.
McDiezel
Uh yeah... That's My point... it's difficult (near impossible) to apply the same rules of science to something that you can't measure