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human
Learning academic research skills by yourself? (not satisfied with skills I acquired in psychology)

I am nearly finished my degree in psychology. The skills I have acquired relate almost entirely to empirical research - competence in statistics, evaluating the strength of a study based on methodology, conducting my own scientific research. It's a good foundation to learn independently but I'm haunted by what I may have missed had I studied something without scientific dogma.  


I am more  interested in subjects such as philosophy, sociology and political history - and I imagine the academic skills involved in researching these areas is very different from what I already know. I want to be competent in independently investigating questions across humanities, and fear I might be incompetent or fall through amateur pitfalls in areas outside of psychology. I notice how starkly misinformed people outside of psychology are of psychological approaches - and I'd like to take the right approach for whatever I look into.  


I'm sick of formal education and, once I graduate, I want to go forward as an autodidact. But I'd love to be able to chase down answers to philosophical/political problems in the same way an academic does, if that doesn't too ridiculous of an undertaking. Maybe somebody here has insider-info on psychology AND a non-empirical discipline? Maybe its all just a matter of actively reading whatever is relevant to your scope of enquiry and if I have something worth adding then I just write it? (I got slammed by philosophy crowd for assuming this was the case)
gpt
Academic research is in service of the academy and the organized principles of various disciplines. If you’re just interest in being an autodidact for your own purposes then you’re not interested in academic work and none of us can be any help. 

Honestly I’m not really sure what you’re asking.