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Statistical psychology/sociology

 
Anonymous Coward
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07/28/2016 06:49 AM
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Statistical psychology/sociology
There must be a rigorous theory on how statistical methods can be used to predict the psychological and sociological behavior of masses. Just like statistical mechanics predicts the behavior of liquids and gases, statistical psychology and sociology should be able to predict the behavior of large number of people.

Is it being kept under the wraps and is it being utilized by TPTB to control us?

Is social media (and sites like this!) a new covert way of obtaining the raw data for modeling human behavior more accurately?
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07/28/2016 06:55 AM
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Re: Statistical psychology/sociology
The fundamentals of psychology and sociology are largely based on statistics. That is, there's an underlying assumption that most people fall into similar patterns of behavior. So, there's nothing new in that. Of course, most of psychology and sociology are qualitative, because they're mostly practiced by humanists who don't know and don't want to know about quantitative, mathematical techniques. That kind of hard science tends to ruin their humanist vibe and offends them by reducing a human being into numbers.

I think what you, OP, are trying to ask is this: is there a statistical theory that accurately predicts political movements, birth and death of ideologies, behavior of markets, revolutions, and general conditions for societal stability. No, there's no such unified theory.





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