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Originally Posted by Matata
Only mathematicians deal with truths, everything else is fuzzy data paired with subjective reasoning, the whole field of medicine is essentially guesswork because they're dealing with incredibly complex systems and have to use bad data (ie - there's a whole of guessing that takes place between "I have a bad cough" and having a definitive cause for the cough). When you get into the world of clinical psychology you're so far removed from any definitive version of truth that you have to define it yourself and having your version of the truth be orientated towards positive results seems like a pretty reasonable stance for someone in that position to take.
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Probably, the most sensible post in this thread.
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