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Why Is Psychology A Pseudoscience

Psychology is a science because it takes the scientific approach to understanding human behaviour. Pseudoscience refers to beliefs and activities that are claimed to be scientific but lack one or more of the three features of science. Psychology is a science because it takes the scientific approach to understanding human… 

Why Is Red Herring Fallacy Bad

Summary. This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy: red herring (RH). An RH is a distraction device and refers to an informal logical fallacy that detracts from the actual issue, allowing one to be sidetracked from what is actually happening and to draw a false… 

Why Is Reverse Scoring Used

The aim of reverse scoring is to re-code the responses so that a high score is transformed into the corresponding low score on the scale. For example, in a 5-point scale, a 4 is transformed into a 2, and vice-versa. The aim of reverse scoring is to re-code the responses…