Civilization players are smart and highly educated?

[drjones]

BS - Software Engineering

But then I enjoy illicit checmicals and loud music so perhaps I am not the best example of a smarts <-> school correlation.

-drjones,
Doktorate - Forbidden Sciences

 

[Paranoid Eyes]

Working on a joint BA in International Relations and Political Science. Never want to be through working on it, but unfortunately that time is fast approaching.

 

[elderotter]

lol add to title and highly addicted to civ....just kidding - true tho.

 

[FooFight2000]

Bachelors of Science in Telecommunication Systems (Computer Science Minor)

 

[Steve2000]

Bachelors in Biology from UC Berkeley - Go Bears

 

[army21bski]

6 years in military....now a junior in college working toward BS in emergency administration and planning to hopefully help people....minor in history and CIV I started me down this path

 

[eshalis]

B.A. Majors: History, Political Science, Minor: Comp Sci, law student

started playing civ 1 back in middle school tho lol

 

[BeefBayford]

Math Ph.D.

Cool another Mathematician! What was your thesis on?

 

[HannuP]

M.Sc. in Geography.

 

[apatheist]

Masters Degree with a Major in Practical Philosophy

"Practical Philosophy?" No offense, but the joke makes itself.

...Well it does look like Civ players are more educated then the average US citizen if nothing else...

No, it looks like the Civ players who have responded to this thread are more educated tha*n the average US citizen. You can't assume that applies to those who didn't respond. Maybe the ones who didn't post are intimidated by their relative lack of education.

Since I'm heckling, I guess I have to participate. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.


* Nitpicky, I know, but since we're all crowing about how educated we are....

 

[elrfag]

Studying engineering at university.

 

[EdCase]

Working towards a digital media degree. From there, I imagine I will go straight to the unemployment line. Or do something completely unrelated to my degree.

As an awful lot of people do..My career track bears no relationship to my educational track.

(pure science is "fun". Managing "pure" scientists pays the bills much better)

 

[RKR]

BS Chemical Engineering, MS Computer Science. Applying to Med School for next fall.

 

[agoodfella]

B.A., Political Science and Economics
M.B.A.

 

[mephiston5]

"Practical Philosophy?" No offense, but the joke makes itself.


No, it looks like the Civ players who have responded to this thread are more educated tha the average US citizen. You can't assume that applies to those who didn't respond. Maybe the ones who didn't post are intimidated by their relative lack of education.

Since I'm heckling, I guess I have to participate. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, plus lots of on-the-job learning.

That is indeed true, but it is also true that internet users that post on message boards are not completely representative of a given population either, so my pervious statement is even more fundamentally flawed then it might have seemed. But in any survey there is always going to be response bias of some kind (like you stated in this case). But since it is very unlikely we will ever have a more accurate sample then this, we will just have to make due. Besides, it is fun to make overly simplified generalizations about things like that, and there are a large number of PhD’s around here…

I hope everyone enjoys Civ4 as much as we are anticipating its release.

 

[shortguy]

Working on a degree in...um...something...

 

[Lord Shadow]

Finished secondary school and currently studying Sound & Image Design at a private university.

 

[Celebithil]

I've got something equivalent to a M.Sc. in mathematics and am currently working on a PhD (in math).

For the benefit of BeefBayford I will mention some things I'm working on, the rest had better ignore this: Elliptic special functions, Quantum groups, and Hecke algebras (so basically algebra with a bit of analysis thrown in for good measure).

 

[BeefBayford]

I've got something equivalent to a M.Sc. in mathematics and am currently working on a PhD (in math).

For the benefit of BeefBayford I will mention some things I'm working on, the rest had better ignore this: Elliptic special functions, Quantum groups, and Hecke algebras (so basically algebra with a bit of analysis thrown in for good measure).

All that is above me buddy good luck with it! I did Optimization (basically linear programming with a bit of 2- and 3-D stuff thrown in) and Topology among other things in my 3rd year, oh and some Number Theory and Cryptography

 

[Efexeye]

I am so smart.
I am so smart.
S-M-R-T.
I mean, S-M-A-R-T.

I have a B.A. in Communications and a Master's degree in Secondary Education.

w00t to student loans!