EVE General Discussion

Clinical or academic? 5+ years of running experiments and writing papers isn't really my thing. I'll stick to a PharmD and make 80k starting.

Edit - and for clinical, I don't know, it's just not my thing. If you're doing that, whatever. But a PhD in an academic setting is rather unappealing.

It's endemic to Psychology. I was under the impression that's what you were talking about.

The 'average' Psychology or Sociology PhD takes 6 years, and if you are doing anything with longitudinal data, God help you.

Thanks for the career advice. I think you missed this though.



#2 you say? Hmm - almost seems like someone's done some reading into lucrative degrees!

The brain never really "stops" developing - forming a memory or learning a skill involves neuronal connections being made, and that never really stops. It just slows down as you age.

But the brain is mostly done doing "brain things" by the time you get to your 20s. 25 isn't a strict rule, but it's a good ballpark estimate.

I do not know what the median age of EvE players is, however, so I'm unable to comment on whether EvE players are more developed, neurologically, than players of other MMOs.

The brain is always developing since you are always experiencing the world and those experiences are physical structures within your brain. So, it would be better to say that the brain has, on average, matured by age 25, although I've seen it said as low as 22, instead of saying it has finished developing. Also, it's important to understand the maturation isn't uniform. The area of the brain that develops last is the prefrontal cortex which is where the idea that you finish developing at 25 comes from. A list of what functions it is involved in.

I'm not really sure if maturation is the quite as precise a word I'm looking for, considering you could probably consider decrease in function/mass due to age as maturation as well.



Ahahah you got a degree in physics, what a nerd!

I've described EVE as a 10 year long Stanford prisoner experiment to people unfamiliar with the game. Is this a fair description?

Oh doctor Gagger, I just love your show. Tell me please, You seem to know why everybody is the way they is but can you tell me how to change into somebody I Isn't. All my Eve career I been wantin to drool and froth at the mouth like a greedy bloodthirstys sociopath but nothin I seem to do helps me to really change. Ewar this, Repper that, little help here, little help there. Once in a while I swoop in and do the hero save but when I'm done I'm the same capsuleer is still there. Risk, Pain,greed, peers, none of them motivate me to kill. What can I do?

Explaining behavior requires attributing beliefs. You can't attribute beliefs without understanding the culture within which an individual developed. Psychology only describes behavior, and cannot explain it. Regardless, any interpretation you give falls victim to underdetermination of theory by evidence - you don't have nearly enough evidence to do anything more than speculate.

A bachelor's in psychology is a joke. Read some anthropology and philosophy and learn how to think.

How would you help those battered goon victims.

i am no doc but it is due to the consequences of losing ships and/or inflicting that loss on other people.