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Yonatan's avatar

Are you calling John Gottman serious rigorous science?

Kurt Gray's avatar

haha, I was. Do you have some good dirt? I'm only so-so familiar with relationship work.

Yonatan's avatar

JG filmed couples spending time together and fighting, analyzed his data, and then formulated a theory, but never ever actually tested his theory on other couples to determine if his theories were true, let alone ran RCT.

Kurt Gray's avatar

I appreciate that. Same reason I criticize Haidt. Loose theorizing and no experiments.