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There's a bunch of young, bright students here. Where do you see the field going?
There's a bunch of young, bright students here. Where do you see the field going?
Mars. Psychologists on Mars.
Typical MIMH shortsightedness. Always complacent until the next group of astronauts develops PTSD from encounters with Cthulhu.Alas, the new astronaut class was just announced and there wasn't a psychologist in the bunch. Better luck next round.
Typical MIMH shortsightedness. Always complacent until the next group of astronauts develops PTSD from encounters with Cthulhu.
Texting therapy.
And then you get Baker Act'd for texting back a gun emoji."r u ok "
Agreed RE: increased involvement in software, social networking, and social engineering across the board. The amount of data being collected on everything, everywhere is massive. I can also envision increased use of various forms of technology in both assessment and treatment, particularly with the "always on" opportunities afforded by smartphones.
Edit: Oh, and how is astropsychology not already a thing?!
I seem to vaguely recall a psychologist or psychiatrist in at least one or two contemporary novels that dealt with interacting with other species. Wasn't Dustin Hoffman's character in The Sphere a psychologist or psychiatrist...? Or maybe it was something like a "xenoanthropologist."
aerospace has psychologists working in the field. NASA has a few.
My thoughts exactly. My advice to any student entering grad school in psychology is to become as skilled at stats and data science as possible.
aerospace has psychologists working in the field. NASA has a few. But more periphereally, there are human factors people who consult on your basic layouts and stuff. I am somewhat concerned that engineers are taking over big data.
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My thoughts exactly. My advice to any student entering grad school in psychology is to become as skilled at stats and data science as possible.
More than a few if you count the agency and the contractors. There were psychologists at NACA/NASA before there were astronauts. But you're right, they are pretty human factors-centric. They'll need to broaden their horizons a bit as they look toward long-duration space flight.
Our affiliated stats department has a whole bunch of course offerings (Various multi-level Data Models courses, Classification and Clustering, Causal Inference: Statistical Methods for Program Evaluation and Policy Research, Missing Data, Statistical Analysis of Networks and a bunch others) and I have no idea on what's considered the must-know topics. Can anyone give some advice on what topics I should definitely get covered?
TL;DR: What classes/topics in social science research statistics should I have covered by the time I graduate?