Because it was on /.?
And nobody there was noticing the problem?
Seriously, I occasionally look at psychological results because sometimes it is worthwhile. For instance I've found the concept of "cognitive dissonance" to be very valuable. However I'll freely admit that there seems to be a lot more chaff than wheat.
As a point of random amusement, multiple studies have shown that psychologists are worse than average at predicting the actual behaviour of actual humans.
And here's a theory about why people become psychologists. Lots of people enter college knowing that they have some personal problems, and take a psychology course to see if they can figure it out. For some it helps a bit but their problems are more complex than what that course covered, so they take another. And another. And then, when they've finally figured out their problem, they think, "What am I going to major in? Well I've got all of this psychology already..."
This was my uncle's theory. And he should know, he had a PhD in psychology. Furthermore I have no doubt that it was a self-description.
Cheers,
Ben
