LimitTheorist

Hello John Urschel. So I'm pretty sure that you know better than I do, that football puts you at a huge risk to concussion and head injuries. My question to you is how have you managed to play football professionally, while still maintaining your health so that you can perform mathematics?

Thank you. I do appreciate that reply

yes. this is exactly what I mean. I am not convinced that filling out a survey or observing behavior yields a well rounded model of reality. and although I did not particularly say it, yes, I don't believe that a survey and observing a behavior is enough to diagnose somebody of a disease. So what would you say to me to convince me otherwise.

and just to put into perspective how I feel. Suppose I was held at gunpoint. And the man with the gun would spare my life if I could predict the time it would take for a ball to land when dropped from a building. My only resource is a physics textbook and the mass and chemical property of the ball, I would be very confident in the guess I make because physics is a very reliable model of reality.

but. if a man pointed a gun to my head. Had a child in front of me, asked me to predict if he has autism or something of the sort based on a survey and based on observations of how he interacts with people. And my resources were the appropriate textbooks for that topic of psychology, I would rather try to take the gun from him than guess if the child was autistic because that's how much I don't trust psychology to be an accurate measure of anything.

I am somebody who is skeptical in psychology's ability to model reality. In particular, I don't really accept any results that are just done based on behavior observations or surveys without physiological evidence.

What would you say to me to convince me that your discipline in particular is a viable model of reality?

edit: I wrote psychologies instead of psychology's. error of plural versus possessive.