Sure, but that depends on the complexity of what you are trying to measure. Some things, like measuring habituation to a repeated loud noise or the effects of an intermittent reinforcement schedule on lever pressing aren’t hugely complex. We can do those studies on pigeons or even fish. Others, like my PhD research is ridiculously complex with no hope of finding anything convincing enough given the unmeasured error. So the results are not reliable like mixing chemicals in a test tube or finding the higgs boson to a probability of 5 sigma (something we will never get in psychology). But it’s still freaking hard work and done using the scientific method.
If other scientists don’t think psychologists are scientists too then I hope they enjoy being elitist a-holes.
