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Most and Least Trusted Occupations

#41
Ziltoid said:
There was a few interesting papers some years ago about the proportion of "soft" and "hard" news in medias. Zaller (2003) was defending the theory that there was mainly soft-news (without evidence) and Patterson (2003, 2000) measured otherwise. Graber's data in 2003 also confirmed there was more hard-news than soft. I very much doubt it changed significantly over the past decade.
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I'm glad that at least someone adheres to TB's stringent 6th ed. APA manual guidelines here!

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#43
96tbird said:
I would like to see a number that regularly use the services of psychologists. I'm gonna guess. It's pretty small.
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Counseling and clinical psychologists are only a part of the broader psychology field. There are countless academic psychologists who produce basic research in cognitive, social, legal, personality, neurological, biological/comparative, and family psychology who influence everything from how to create computer applications to jury selection techniques to structuring education curriculum. Then there are a whole host of other applied psychologists, such as community, school, and I/O psychologists.

Of course, even though the APA recognizes a myriad of subfields, the general public's schema of a psychologist is probably going to be someone who does clinical or counseling work. :hmm:
 
#45
Ziltoid said:
Let's get this party started

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Perhaps not surprisingly, Trotsky wasn't invited to this get together.

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#47
oniman7 said:
To become a financially viable lawyer on your own name requires many more years even.
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+1

Many people don't realize that most attorneys aren't rolling around in European sports cars that cost as much as the average house. You don't make serious money as an attorney until you (hopefully) become a partner. And like MDs, attorneys usually begin their careers with mountains of debt from their educations.

Also, all attorneys aren't greedy ambulance chasers or corporate sharks. IME, many of them are great people who love their work and honestly do want to do good in the world (as much as the general public probably doesn't want to believe that).
 

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