week 5 dq 2 post

my approach to all things is science. I use and rely upon the scientific method as a guild.

I have an equal distaste for freud as this student. But I know why I do not like him, I know why I do not like him from a science and mathematical perspective not from a emotional and feelings format.

my response to this student would be.

Brittany;

this is a science class, since it is science not liking something is insufficient for the scientific method. not a single aspect of the scientific method mentions emotion or likes. it is all about hard undeniable facts. So if you want to tear freud’s ideas apart, do it according to the scientific method.

Example in a couple of his studies his sample size was so small it would not even be semi considered a valid test in the present. The sample size was of one very small community of female Jews living in violently harsh conditions. Females only does not qualify as a solid study of anything other than the most basic of ideas. It cannot be the foundation for a theory.

Next the living conditions of the sample size is also entirely disqualifying for anything close to approaching a solid scientific meausremnet. I can think of no less than 5 mre subjects, not on that list is his cocaine use which by default disqualifies most to all of his studies. Can you think of what 5 parameters disqualify his ideas. Can you think of others, minus the completely obvious cocaine use. That one is simple too easy.

Environemtnally he was living and having an active practice during the rise of the Third Reich, he was Jewish. That is another about 12 subjects which need to be identified and the scientific method applied to show the lab testable evidence of why his ideas have little validity.

Then of course you can attack full on why some of his ideas which have little direct evidence of being species wide facts, have permiated, why did the cultures affected adopt his facades so reality.

end of note

for students who have an emotional reaction, redirect them to attack what they do not like using the tools of science. if they want to be in the field, the field is based on the ideas and structures of the scientific method. This note to her would be a way to direct her emotions into attacking the ideas which she finds offensive.