The FAA's standard operating procedure is to require anyone who's ever in their lifetime been diagnosed with ADHD to see a forensic psychologist off an FAA approved list even though forensics psychology has been discredited by the February 2020 Arizona State University study by Dr. Tess Neal PhD.
Dr. Neal openly states that forensic psychology is a junk science that is escape the scrutiny of the psychology field in general and the field of law enforcement where forensic psychologists pull theories out of their asses.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/courtroom-psychology-tests-unreliable-study-finds-69016018 https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-study-challenges-the-reliability-of-court-psych-exams/
https://www.statepress.com/article/2020/02/forensic-psychology-junk-science and https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2020-02-pspi-court-data.html
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological-assessment-in-legal-contexts-are-courts-keeping-junk-science-out-of-the-courtroom.html https://www.forensicmag.com/560911-Study-Courtroom-Psychology-Tests-are-Unquestioned-May-be-Unreliable/
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/16/court-psychology-tests-junk-science-study/111328956/ concluded with, Lawyers and judges, who are not experts in testing methods, must rely on the expertise of psychologists to perform due diligence on tests they present as evidence, said Harvey Fishbein, a criminal defense attorney in Manhattan who was not involved in the study.
“If psychologists are not willing to regulate their own field, it’s a real problem.”
https://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2020/02/flawed-science-two-efforts-launched-to.html
https://blog.expertpages.com/in-the-news/testing-instruments-used-by-forensic-psychologists-criticized-as-junk-science.htm
and https://asunow.asu.edu/20200219-asu-study-shows-junk-science-used-evidence-court and by the AP https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/feb/17/study-finds-junk-science-used-evidence-courts/ and https://psychcentral.com/news/2020/02/18/psychological-tests-used-in-court-are-often-junk-science/154294.html https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2020/03/are-courts-keeping-junk-psychology-out-of-the-courtrooms.html
Link to the study https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2F1529100619888860+-+FREE/pdf
In fact it seems that Dr. Neal was critical of psychology using junk science tests and has a replication crisis is more to due with self preservation trying to find a way to not have psychology labeled outright as science fiction. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22360363/replication-crisis-psychological-science-accelerator
Actual science has now determined that brains need rest after being redlined for 30 minutes. A multi hour cognative assemenet is basically a test to distruction and is malpractice since everyone will have fatigue leading to to mistakes, slower thinking, and eventually, burnout. When we take breaks, our brain uses that downtime to process information, form new connections, and reset its focus.
Scientists call this the “default mode network”—it’s a powerful system that helps us make sense of what we’re learning and sparks creativity. A simple walk to the kitchen or a few minutes gazing out the window can give your brain the boost it needs to come back stronger. What is normal is what malpracticing quacks mislabel as ADHD https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-science-behind-breaks-and-how-they-make-you-more-effective/ss-AA1DaTyG?ocid=sapphireappshare
Other studies showing psychology as a junk science include
https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/1115-junk-science
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/junk-science-criminal-profiling-shari-schwartz-ph-d-/
The Fraud in the field of psychology is as far reaching as not just fabricating data & results, but also omitting data that is contradictory to theory proposed, outright lying about materials used in a study, misrepresenting, misrepresenting data analyzed, something that former NTSB vice chair Bruce Landsberg brought up https://sites.google.com/site/no2cog/supporting-evidence/ntsb-vice-chair-bruce-landsberg-data-can-be-tortured-to-confess-to-anything
And how this fraud is outed for the entire filed of psychology, very little of it can be replicated. Third parties take the same varibles and run their own studies and the results are not even close to what the field of psychology claims. People lives are being destoryed by a field that litterally makes things up.
Statistics were used as a crutch to claim that research in psychology has validity, where even the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders derives it's name. This manipulation of statistics allowed for false positives to be created and replicated without much scrutiny. at the 10 min 20 sec mark this was highlighted in a paper published "False positive psychology" https://youtu.be/QGWeVbYduOI?si=dBHngU3w7NjuEQjI&t=620 significant results were obtained from an impossible phenomenon. As Bruce Landsberg stated at the 2023 NTSB Safety Summit, you can torture the data to confess to anything. They "pulled back the curtain" to create positive evidence for a false theory. This website will demonstrate that with FAA Medical does this to ground certain groups of pilots and air traffic controllers claiming they are not safe when in reality they are probably the safest demographic. More or less garbage in garbage out. This also shows why the field of psychology is secretive because it's entirely BS and the field of psychology is performing a massive coverup of fraud on their most impressive publications which the results were entirely fabricated. Whether it's through confirmation bias, questionable research practices that lead to false positives called p-hacking which is subjective and not objective, or outright fraud.
Even something quantifiable can be proven to be false such as dealing with sonic booms on supersonic flight. That everything up until Boom Supersonics research regarding it has been proven false. 38 min 50 sec https://youtu.be/o1BRZMugwWQ?si=zeW9pKnbPfCqwwUq&t=2330