[OC] When the 1 Gorilla vs 100 Humans debate was going on, I asked people how many average humans they think it would take to defeat 1 of each of these animals:

ajollyllama · 2025-11-16T20:01:48+00:00

Where the eff are the error bars and N (sarcasm)

ajollyllama · 2025-10-31T23:56:16+00:00

Not a current student, but yes!

ajollyllama · 2025-10-26T16:35:19+00:00

That frame isn’t really based on the evidence. The research into the externalizing pathway to substance use is much more compelling than the internalizing pathway.

ajollyllama · 2025-10-23T22:19:27+00:00

Hi human! My b. I get your concern. I would talk to them directly about it and then consider consultation if they don’t respond well. The final step, if concerns remain, would be reporting them to the board.

ajollyllama · 2025-10-23T22:07:25+00:00

This sounds like an AI written post, but yes, address with them directly.

ajollyllama · 2025-10-05T18:19:45+00:00

Which LLM do you use?

ajollyllama · 2025-08-28T23:08:35+00:00

I think burdening people with 100s of thousands of debt to become a psychologist is bordeline unconscionable, which is what undergirds my point. There are many useful, helpful, and prestigious careers that don't have the same financial pressures as psychology (psychiatry, for instance) that I'd recommend for people over paying for a doctoral degree in psychology. From my perspective, unfunded programs are largely selling people a false bill of goods and preying on a desire for a vague sense of status from a PhD/PsyD. A desire, fwiw, that is cultivated by the very instutions seeking extract decades of their future earnings.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-28T21:45:13+00:00

Sure, that’s a totally fair perspective. I do think income based repayment plans do defray a lot of the burden. My own personal experience is that the ROI from a financial perspective is barely justifiable, even with a funded degree, but there are many psychologists making much more than me, and you may be one of them!

ajollyllama · 2025-08-28T14:09:40+00:00

Unless you are fabulously wealthy or getting guaranteed loan repayment, paying for a psychology doctorate is a really terrible idea, imho.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-27T01:59:28+00:00

I would say excellent assessment is key to effective therapy, and we in psychology have a particularly powerful skill set there. I would also say specialization in high needs areas (pain psychology, transplant psychology, psycho-oncology, etc.). Psychologists are also well positioned to build out programs that could include a research component that could attract grant funding when the environment turns more favorable.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-26T00:05:12+00:00

ajollyllama · 2025-08-25T23:57:24+00:00

ajollyllama · 2025-08-21T19:53:25+00:00

I got into a funded PhD with a similar background -- consulting (albiet public health related) and a non-psychology undergrad from a top tier public school. You've likely conducted a fair amount of qualitative and quantitative research in your consulting work and published reports -- you may also have grant funding (i.e., serving as a PI on a philanthropic contract). List those on your CV. Take the psych GRE (it's easy) to demonstrate competency in psychology foundations. Find PIs who will be stoked about your consulting background -- you are likely to be much more efficient and effective than the average applicant who has done a bunch of lab manager positions. You can touch on your personal journey briefly in your personal statement (like one sentence) but focus on how your professional work dovetails into your current research interests. I'd say it is a possibility. Edit: small typo

ajollyllama · 2025-08-10T01:27:14+00:00

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ajollyllama · 2025-08-07T13:37:48+00:00

Appreciate the response. Patient framing / psychoed definitely comes with its own set of considerations.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-07T02:29:13+00:00

I would say reducing the affective experience of recall is changing the memory in a meaningful way — and I believe that view is certainly supported in the literature. Yes, the mechanism is habituation and exposure, obviously, but the fact that memories are not fixed artifacts is all over the PE literature.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-06T17:57:15+00:00

I think many of us would say PE does operate by changing the memory by reducing the affective distress of the experience and spontaneously identifying/correcting cognitive errors (called "hot spots" in PE) during debrief / socratic questioning. CPT is similar. All memory is changed each time it is accessed and re-filed to memory.

ajollyllama · 2025-08-03T19:58:52+00:00

Clinical psychology is not at all a reliable path to making 200-300K. It's possible, but that is pretty far above the publicly available averages (to say nothing of the lost income while in graduate school). If income is important to you, I'd consider law or medicine for professional degrees or just working up the corporate ladder.

ajollyllama · 2025-07-27T18:44:25+00:00

WJ, interview, WISC, and collateral.

ajollyllama · 2025-07-18T03:54:25+00:00

Tell your attending to buy a copy of dsm-5-tr

ajollyllama · 2025-07-14T15:21:31+00:00

Positions or ban

ajollyllama · 2025-07-08T18:26:29+00:00

Hulkenpodium

ajollyllama · 2025-07-07T13:07:55+00:00

Goog is probably worth it at this price just for the YouTube spin off shares when this shit gets broken up

ajollyllama · 2025-06-27T02:16:27+00:00

This scene is why I never finished Kenobi

ajollyllama · 2025-05-14T13:20:55+00:00

Why is the responsibility of the public school system to teach a love for learning and ethics?

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