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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
Well, I do experiments where I manipulate variables and measure the effects, and these are then peer-reviewed and published in reputable scientific journals.
If that doesn't make me a scientist, I don't know what does.
Well, I wouldn't say that anyone who meets those criteria is automatically a scientist. If it weren't for the hubbub in the psychological fields over reproduciblility experiments, I'd say you had stronger legs to stand on with the "publication in reputable journals" part. It's just that it has recently been unveiled that those publications have gone untested by peers, and now that they are being tested, they're refuting more results than they are affirming.
You also left out hypothesis, creating and testing models and something about falsifiable conclusions, but meh. You probably do those things, so often that it is not in the front of your head that those are the sign posts on the path of science.
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