"Congratulations! I might go for my own PhD at some point, but for now I'll just have to settle for a Masters." She smirks, finding it easy to joke with the man.

"That's an excellent point. The sample size is far too small to be an effective test group, no matter what the method is, so I find it highly unlikely it's any sort of experimentation." She frowned, tapping her chin softly as she thought, "There are just too many variables and unknowns to make heads or tails out of any of this."