Some issues also exist for personality science as it mainly relies on statistical models, which you also seem to criticise in this article. But even when considering that, it does seem that personality science is one of the more reliable fields in psychology.
I think that both cognitive and behavioral psychology (old rivals) seem reliable on a larger comparative scale.
I think a lot of psychometrics has something useful to offer, but also has a lot of crap in the mental health sector and organizational psychology.
Some organizational psychology also seems redeemable, like predictors of job performance, Goal-Setting Theory (sounds a tad bit pseudo-profound though, as this is very common sensical).
Very fair. I'm always interested to hear of different segments of social science that look to really stand out. As for the endless dark hole of statistics I hope to write about that soon...
Some issues also exist for personality science as it mainly relies on statistical models, which you also seem to criticise in this article. But even when considering that, it does seem that personality science is one of the more reliable fields in psychology.
I think that both cognitive and behavioral psychology (old rivals) seem reliable on a larger comparative scale.
I think a lot of psychometrics has something useful to offer, but also has a lot of crap in the mental health sector and organizational psychology.
Some organizational psychology also seems redeemable, like predictors of job performance, Goal-Setting Theory (sounds a tad bit pseudo-profound though, as this is very common sensical).
Very fair. I'm always interested to hear of different segments of social science that look to really stand out. As for the endless dark hole of statistics I hope to write about that soon...