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There aren't a lot of people being paid to do this type of work though and social science tends to lag behind on the technology front because people with said s
by Frost1x 3y ago
There aren't a lot of people being paid to do this type of work though and social science tends to lag behind on the technology front because people with said skills tend to find more lucrative venues.
I've worked with a few computational social scientists. Personally I've always found the area a bit fascinating. There's lots of agent based models, tie ins with economics, social models, etc. trying to determine how groups of people will behave and interact. Lots of understanding behavior and exploring implications policies may play on behavior from a governing standpoint or how things naturally occur.
- atemerev 3y agoWell, as a rule, you don't come to the academia for money. I am a software engineer who now works as a researcher in the university for 3x less salary, because I just can't stand bigtech anymore (and probably unfit for corporate life in general). Another thing is that software engineers are extremely highly paid only in United States, and even there perhaps only in a few highly concentrated places. Everywhere else the difference is not that dramatic (and not everyone in the world with the skills can move to Bay Area).