TIL Jordan Peterson had an iq of 145 and taught at Harvard

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[–]Jackalope 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is a pseudoscience.

psience considers psychology to be a small subset of the possible states and modes of the human mind.

But as this newer exact science spreads,

If psychology is a subset of the true exact science of psience, then it is not in fact pseudoscientific, but incomplete like all of our science.

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It isn't a subset as a field. Rather it is a field about a subset of the mind. As such, it isn't only incomplete, it fails at encompassing the object of its study, the human mind, by admitting and recognizing only a small subset of said object. That is why it can be pseudoscience while being somewhat related to an actual science. A bit like you might say alchemy is somewhat related to chemistry, while being entirely different.