The Federal Aviation Administration has ruled out requiring psychological testing for airline pilots, despite an air crash last year in which a German pilot deliberately flew an airliner full of passe

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/28/psychiatry-needs-spect-imaging.aspx

-Primary airline Pilots in charge of aircraft ladened with passengers should probably be subject to SPECT brain scans. The German in question was a second chair Pilot. Pilots that have brain difficultly as shown on SPECT would be expected to show improvement on next SPECT 6 months - 1yr. Can easily turn a non-performing brain around with nutrition, health/exercise, diet.

These tests are ineffective because the people who devise them haven't a clue what the mind is and how it works.

How about developing better or thorough psychological testing. Or is psychology, as I suspect, actually magic, not science?

Dr Amen: SPECT scans

https://www.bulletproofexec.com/dr-daniel-amen-alzheimers-brain-food-spect-scans-227/

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Brain-Revised-Expanded/product-reviews/110190464X (4.2/5)

There was a moment in time when all those passengers trusted the man up front.

With the recent advancements in AIs the pilots can mostly be replaced with machines and have human pilots sit in the back seat or have them removed all together and have them monitor on ground to remote pilot in case of an emergency.

Psyche evals provide more insight when given with polygraph tests. Going as far back (investigating) as 10 years into a pilot's background is important too.

Weather or not psche evals are effective, the airlines must be able to say they've tried something.

gokai_wo_maneku,

Or is psychology, as I suspect, actually magic, not science?

It's actually a religion. You have to believe in it to work.

A science would get predictable results. Psych doesn't. Well it does sometimes.

Which makes it not a science.

The FAA, and obviously a few posters here, are about 50 years out of date on the science of psychology, human behavior, psychiatry and biological behavior.

As with any profession, there are frauds, but the medical sciences of the mind are well past educated guesses.

BertieWoosterJUN. 19, 2016 - 06:58PM JST It's actually a religion. You have to believe in it to work.

No, psychology is without a doubt a science. The problem is the human mind is incredibly complicated, but people (not necessarily just psychologists, but also the people who use the science they develop) want quick-and-dirty tools that can perfectly spell out whatever they want in 5 minutes or less. You have more neurological connections in your head than there are stars in the galaxy, but here, take this Buzzfeed version of the Myers-Briggs test in the time it takes to brew a cup of tea and find out everything you ever wanted to know about yourself. It's just unreasonable. We wouldn't expect a biologist to work out a perfect inventory of everything that lives in an ecosystem by taking a brief stroll through it, so why do we expect psychologists to work the same magic?

That sort of unreasonable expectation applies here, I think. The mind is incredibly complex, and there is no fool-proof way to figure out if it wants to destroy the body that gives it life. Airlines who really wanted to take the time to get to know their employees and help them with their problems could probably drastically reduce the likelihood of a suicidal pilot in their employ, but that would cut into time which would cut into profit, so that's not going to happen. It's already incredibly unlikely that your pilot on any given flight is suicidal, but the airlines want something to quell your anxiety. Just like the TSA with their elaborate lines that don't actually do that well at stopping terrorists, it's not about actually stopping the problem - it's about making customers think it is possible to stop the problem.

Wc626: Polygraphs do not work and are unscientific quackery. Please see antipolygraph.org for more information.

I think the FFA is nuts.