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Compared to what more reliable alternative? If you're faced with attempting to understand a mental or emotional condition are you going to turn to tarot cards, astrology, or "bad spirits" instead?
You're dismissing the best known mental science of today. What does that leave you with instead to use?
Essential oils of course.
If you had a question and two false answers, you got unsolved question.
In simpler terms we don't have to assume the answers based on science.
In my opinion the core psychology problems might be solved in 10-30 years specifically with the evolution of AI which would make it easier to find bad un-reproducible studies.
Hopefully we will see better diagnosis also due to technology.
You're a binary values test on the analysis of emotional behavior? That's like measuring the speed of sound with how many oranges are on a tree. It just doesn't work that way. You're saying that because psychology doesn't produce perfect answers all the time, it should be disregarded every time. Again, what produces more accurate answers more of the time? If you've got a system, please let us know, but the state of the art of understanding human behavior today is modern Psychology. Is it perfect? Heck no! However, its better than anything else humanity has come up with to-date. It also is helpful for millions of people around the world. I would encourage you to keep at it if you're having difficulties which psychology can address. Psychology is right a lot of times, but many times not on the first, second, or third try.
There's another field which is similar: Economics
Like psychology its impossible to create conditions to purely test economic theories because of confounding variables. Application of economic theories are oftentimes product wildly predicted outcomes. Does this mean we dismiss economists as witch doctors (well, some do) and we abandon the hundreds of years of data that produces the body of knowledge we call Economics? No, we don't. We continue to observe and apply actions, and try to make economic theories and applications more accurate. Economics is right a lot of times, but many times not on the first, second, or third try.