This tower was built by crazy people, and I don't think it's holding up very well.
10 years ago, I hit the library stacks to find more details on an interesting statement that I found in a psychology text, and after slogging back 40 years through journal articles citing other journal articles citing other journal articles, I was disappointed to find that there was really no reasonable basis for the statement. A little later in the semester, I was told in a statistics class that studies that reject the null hypothesis are around 20 times as likely to be accepted for publication as studies that don't - and since much of psychology uses a 5% confidence interval, that's pretty sad. I threw up my hands and declared psychology to be too aggravating due to people making up theories to match their personal world view and then trying to prove them with flawed statistics. Too fluffy, I thought. No wonder people in other sciences make fun of psychology. I filled the minimum requirements for a B.A. and got out.
I'd like to take that back. Having spent more time on cell biology and microbiology than I ever spent on psychology, I find that the grass is not actually greener on the other side of the fence. There's decently good grass on both sides, and it's randomly dotted with cow plops. Good thing the good lord gave us all eyes, eh? That way we don't have to rely on the other folks in the field to spot every steaming pile of poop for us.
I'd like to take that back. Having spent more time on cell biology and microbiology than I ever spent on psychology, I find that the grass is not actually greener on the other side of the fence. There's decently good grass on both sides, and it's randomly dotted with cow plops. Good thing the good lord gave us all eyes, eh? That way we don't have to rely on the other folks in the field to spot every steaming pile of poop for us.