Quote Originally Posted by ApeironStella View Post
Returning to the topic, I've been mulling over this topic for a while, and I think that mathematically proving the inner connections sadly is unlikely to get it accepted as "scientifical", as psychology is very much an area of "softer sciences", so that would require more empirical results to get any level of credibility, I think.
A few people have said proving the higher level correlations is not meaningful and cannot be the basis of a scientific test. I don't understand, why not? If we create reliable empirical measures, and there is a high correlation between the measures at an appropriate alpha level (which normally <5% for published research), why is that not enough?