Well, the truth is that I was ok with a 3.0 gpa, but I never thought about the jobs. I studied because I was interested. The jobs I was offered after that were all about helping those that had problems. It didn't pay and it was depressive.
I actually never heard of that field before. I thought about getting a master in philosophy and becoming a teacher but I'll try to find some information about user experience researchers.
M.Sc in psychology are extremely rare nowadays though. I'm not even sure there are M.A. in psychology in Quebec.
Thanks for the info.
On the other hand, if you now need a master's degree to get a decent job when you go to college while other manual jobs get you a lot of money faster... I think it still supports my point:/
Everybody, including me, believed at some point that a college or university degree would bring fame and fortune... which is false.
Unless you study engineering or get a degree in a medical profession, you might get screwed. Oh, and you WILL get screwed with a liberal arts degree (sad for me and my psy major).
Meanwhile, some friends bring home tons of cash by being welders, linemen, plumbers and electricians...
Who is the smartest guy around? The guy that goes to university and studies something like philosophy or psychology, or the one who gets a professional welding formation and earns 75k+ per year?
Hey, my education is going nowhere (B.Sc in psychology and a graduate diploma in education to teach psychology in order to have a ton of vacation time during summer to travel the world). But I'd need a master degree in psychology too it seems.
I was thinking about returning to university in computer sciences... especially to dabble in network security since I'm not that excited about programming. On the other hand, I'm also thinking about becoming a welder since they seem do make MUCH more money than computer scientists.
I was exposed to sex when I was 11 because of photography magazines (well, artistic nudes). Then at around 13 I discovered the Internet in the beginning of the 1990s and saw tons of weird things. I learned a lot from that. Not because of school, and not because of movies.
So if your plan is to "protect" the kids, the Internet is screwing their minds anyway.
And mind you, I live a normal healthy life and am in a sane and healthy relationship.
Since the content approval process is being removed, I'm sure their will be games rated for adults only coming out. These will include stories with violence and what not, but also porn.
I guess more people will want to buy a ps2, or remove the dust from their old ps2 and buy new games.
If archeologists find knives and trash to be important in a search, I'd say the average pictures that we are taking today might actually be very intereting to future generations for they represent normal life.
Taking a placebo would help more than not taking anything, but it would help less than taking a known cure. That placebo could be a sugar pill, or an antibiotic, it's irrelevant since the only important thing is what the patient believes.
So what I was saying is that we already proved that a placebo is effective. If you give out antibiotics as a placebo, we know that it works since it IS a placebo. The only important thing for the patient is that they swallowed something.
Placebos have been proven to do good for a long time. So much that they must take the placebo effect into account when pharmaceutical companies want to test new products in order to make sure their new medicine is NOT simply a placebo.
What they do is that they compare the new drug being developped to a fake drug that has no effects. So, one group of testers take the real pills, the other group takes the fake pills. Of course, nobody knows if their own pill is real.
So if the new drug is having better health benefits than a placebo, the new drug is accepted and made into an official medicine.
If the placebo effect wasn't known to be effective, they would simply compare the effect of their new drug to a group that wouldn't be taking anything.
Although, they do give sugar pills sometimes at the hospital. Also, people, don't forget that this placebo effect actually HELPS the patient to recover more quickly.
Everyone does it. Even the medics sometimes use little tricks. They have 3 or 4 to save lives. I know of one: If you are extremely nervous and are almost hyperventilating, they give you a mask and tell you to breath the oxygen... yet they never open their bottle. The patients immediately calm down after that...
The medics never wanted to tell me the other tricks since they might eventually use them on me to save my life.
To solve the problem of child pornography, you need to combat the problem at the input, not the output.
There were pedophiles before the Internet, censoring everything will just make them not talk to each other, but they will creep around kindergardens and masturbate... or worse.
It is a a sexual deviation and if they keep it in their head it's alright. People can have weird kinks and I don't care. It's the small percentage of those with the deviation that actually cross the line and ACT their fantasies that are the real problem.
You need to make sure there is help and that they know it's their for them in case they choose to seek help. You need to talk about it in school. You need to educate people about that as much as possible. This is what we call "prevention".
Sharing pictures or not, these guys will still be around... as they were at the dawn of mankind.
I'm 29 now and have been gaming for about 25 years. Now it's a struggle for me to sit down at my computer and play a game for more than an hour at a time... or I'll buy a Wii game, play it for a few days, then completely lose all interest in it again. If I'm not LANing with a few friends or playing one of the party games on the Wii, I just don't have the desire to play games anymore.
I know what you mean. I'm a couple of years younger but now, when I sit down to play a game, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I prefer to do "real things" now.
On the other hand, I really love flash games now. They're short and sweet. I guess it's a comeback to the old "arcade games" I guess...:P
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Well, you could become a tradesman and eventually open your own corporation in that field. There is no ceiling when you become your own boss...
Well, the truth is that I was ok with a 3.0 gpa, but I never thought about the jobs. I studied because I was interested. The jobs I was offered after that were all about helping those that had problems. It didn't pay and it was depressive.
I actually never heard of that field before. I thought about getting a master in philosophy and becoming a teacher but I'll try to find some information about user experience researchers.
M.Sc in psychology are extremely rare nowadays though. I'm not even sure there are M.A. in psychology in Quebec.
Thanks for the info.
On the other hand, if you now need a master's degree to get a decent job when you go to college while other manual jobs get you a lot of money faster... I think it still supports my point :/
Everybody, including me, believed at some point that a college or university degree would bring fame and fortune... which is false.
Unless you study engineering or get a degree in a medical profession, you might get screwed. Oh, and you WILL get screwed with a liberal arts degree (sad for me and my psy major).
Meanwhile, some friends bring home tons of cash by being welders, linemen, plumbers and electricians...
Who is the smartest guy around? The guy that goes to university and studies something like philosophy or psychology, or the one who gets a professional welding formation and earns 75k+ per year?
Think about it...
Wow... a future welder on Slashdot?
Hey, my education is going nowhere (B.Sc in psychology and a graduate diploma in education to teach psychology in order to have a ton of vacation time during summer to travel the world). But I'd need a master degree in psychology too it seems.
I was thinking about returning to university in computer sciences... especially to dabble in network security since I'm not that excited about programming. On the other hand, I'm also thinking about becoming a welder since they seem do make MUCH more money than computer scientists.
I wonder what's your story.
What are your sources for the 99.9%?
I was exposed to sex when I was 11 because of photography magazines (well, artistic nudes). Then at around 13 I discovered the Internet in the beginning of the 1990s and saw tons of weird things. I learned a lot from that. Not because of school, and not because of movies.
So if your plan is to "protect" the kids, the Internet is screwing their minds anyway.
And mind you, I live a normal healthy life and am in a sane and healthy relationship.
Just ask my sheep.
Since the content approval process is being removed, I'm sure their will be games rated for adults only coming out. These will include stories with violence and what not, but also porn.
I guess more people will want to buy a ps2, or remove the dust from their old ps2 and buy new games.
Good job Sony!
How are movies, music and visual arts not culturally important?
If archeologists find knives and trash to be important in a search, I'd say the average pictures that we are taking today might actually be very intereting to future generations for they represent normal life.
Because we obviously don't listen to each other?
I'm not too sure about that since the masks have holes.
Hahaha!
It's funny 'cause it's true!
:P
Oh, they could I guess. But, why waste O2 since it's not necessary?
A placebo is effective. Just not as much as a real medicine.
Taking a placebo would help more than not taking anything, but it would help less than taking a known cure. That placebo could be a sugar pill, or an antibiotic, it's irrelevant since the only important thing is what the patient believes.
So what I was saying is that we already proved that a placebo is effective. If you give out antibiotics as a placebo, we know that it works since it IS a placebo. The only important thing for the patient is that they swallowed something.
Hahaha, yes you did. Not a bad idea. But if you sell these, there WILL be a demand for antibiotics AND for these sugar pills.
We're back at square 1.
Placebos have been proven to do good for a long time. So much that they must take the placebo effect into account when pharmaceutical companies want to test new products in order to make sure their new medicine is NOT simply a placebo.
What they do is that they compare the new drug being developped to a fake drug that has no effects. So, one group of testers take the real pills, the other group takes the fake pills. Of course, nobody knows if their own pill is real.
So if the new drug is having better health benefits than a placebo, the new drug is accepted and made into an official medicine.
If the placebo effect wasn't known to be effective, they would simply compare the effect of their new drug to a group that wouldn't be taking anything.
You're thinking about the nocebo effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
You're idea is interesting but people might actually become obese when they truly need the pills :P
It hasn't been absolutely proven that placebos do any good
What? And why would studies of new cures be tested against control groups that are taking a PLACEBO then?
FAIL
Also, it's the same thing with all the alternative medicines. Crystals, magnets and all that create the placebo effect too.
Though, scary voodoo magic and dark rituals bring the nocebo effect...
Psychology can be a remedy, and a weapon...
I was going to post exactly that. Good job.
Although, they do give sugar pills sometimes at the hospital. Also, people, don't forget that this placebo effect actually HELPS the patient to recover more quickly.
Everyone does it. Even the medics sometimes use little tricks. They have 3 or 4 to save lives. I know of one: If you are extremely nervous and are almost hyperventilating, they give you a mask and tell you to breath the oxygen... yet they never open their bottle. The patients immediately calm down after that...
The medics never wanted to tell me the other tricks since they might eventually use them on me to save my life.
Wow, I'm in the minority then.
This sucks.
Most people seem to want a multiplayer dungeon crawler, but I want a virtual universe populated with players...
I'll never be happy in my virtual life :(
There is a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
To solve the problem of child pornography, you need to combat the problem at the input, not the output.
There were pedophiles before the Internet, censoring everything will just make them not talk to each other, but they will creep around kindergardens and masturbate... or worse.
It is a a sexual deviation and if they keep it in their head it's alright. People can have weird kinks and I don't care. It's the small percentage of those with the deviation that actually cross the line and ACT their fantasies that are the real problem.
You need to make sure there is help and that they know it's their for them in case they choose to seek help. You need to talk about it in school. You need to educate people about that as much as possible. This is what we call "prevention".
Sharing pictures or not, these guys will still be around... as they were at the dawn of mankind.
I'm 29 now and have been gaming for about 25 years. Now it's a struggle for me to sit down at my computer and play a game for more than an hour at a time... or I'll buy a Wii game, play it for a few days, then completely lose all interest in it again. If I'm not LANing with a few friends or playing one of the party games on the Wii, I just don't have the desire to play games anymore.
I know what you mean. I'm a couple of years younger but now, when I sit down to play a game, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I prefer to do "real things" now.
On the other hand, I really love flash games now. They're short and sweet. I guess it's a comeback to the old "arcade games" I guess... :P