I just graduated university with a degree in psychology. I've decided to take a year off to be a be a student of life and personal research projects that I may not have time to do in grad school.

Recently I've been interested in stage development models for personality. Particularly those of Freud, and Adler.

Freud's idea of of a child's development toward sexual fitness is interesting (not completely accurate, but interesting nonetheless), but it stops at adolescence, and here at r/seduction we all know that one's abilities to attract a suitable mate does not stop progressing at the age of 13.

Adler on the other hand proposes a model for psychological development that continues through adulthood. His model is based on the negotiation psychological conflicts at different stages of life.

What I want to do is apply the general theme of Adler's model to the Freud's subject of interest. In order to do this, I want to analyze 3 data point:

1.)Age 2.)Location 4.)Hours of "game" per week 3.)Primary sticking point

My hypothesis is that development in "game" follows a common path that is based on age related psychological conflicts, which when resolved allow individuals to overcome a primary sticking point. The rate at which individuals are able to advance in stages is modulated the number of social interactions they engage in.

tldr I think there is a general trend to development in the game that is based primarily on psychological conflicts that tend to arise at particular stages in life. The speed of this process is dependent on the amount of social interactions one engages in regularly.
To check on this I need your data. 1.)Age 2.)Location 3.)Hours of game per week 4.)Primary sticking point

EDIT: My initial post was pretty lazy. Here's the full idea laid out premise by premise. I think this will clear up a several people's concerns.

Key Premises

  • Everyone has the potential to develop into a "natural" who has relatively no problem getting girls. (see Jung's theories on the self-actualizing nature of man)
  • Although we all have unique life experiences, most of us also, as a human species, share many general life experiences. (e.g. Helpless infancy, attending school, leaving home, starting a career, retiring, ect.) (Jung's archetypes, Adler's conflict model of development This is a good time to note that this model applies primarily to first world, industrialized cultures. It is only in such places that we have the luxury of worrying about getting good at game.
  • These different universal life experiences and transitions result in new types of social environments (High school, the work place, the bar, university, ect.)which challenge the individual with new types of social interactions; a subclass of these interactions would deal specifically with how a man relates to women.
  • As an individual engages in more social interactions of a particular nature, the more behavioral feed back is deposited in either the conscious (by attending to feedback and integrating it into one's behavioral schemata) or unconscious (by being inattentive and unpresent to feedback) mind. Conscious integration leads to quicker negotiation of the stage conflict. Unconscious assimilation can lead to positive development, but it is not as assured as the conscious learning process.
  • The above point is hard to assess from a survey but I feel like the best I can do is to assume that if you are going out to practice pick up, you are focusing on the feed back you are getting. I know this is more true for some people than others.
  • Location simply gives a measure for potential exposure to social interactions during one's daily life. More densely populate = greater likelihood for social interactions to occur.

I hope this clears things up a little.