Juanita is studying in her dorm room when her roommate says, "Why did you sign up for a psychology class? Everyone knows that psychology is the same as plain, old common sense."
How should Juanita explain the differences between psychology and common sense?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer will include the following key points.
• Psychology is based on empirical evidence.
• Common sense and popular beliefs have often been refuted by empirical evidence.
• Many common sense beliefs are contradictory because they are not based on empirical evidence.
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(a) that is just the nature of intelligence; it could not be otherwise (b) all normal distributions have an average of 100 (c) it is just a lucky accident; it could have come out any way (d) Binet originally used a ratio, MA/CA, defined so that the mean MA had to equal the mean CA. That ratio was then multiplied by 100. Today, test scores are statistically adjusted so that average performance is set equal to 100.
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