So I ran my stats again, and suddenly I had a whole bunch of significant difference. Not the differences that I wanted, but at least something happened. So I ran all excitedly to my supervisor, and he laughed at me (weirdly enough) and then settled down to itnerpret them.
The problem is, they make NO SENSE! I can't explain it because nothing happened in logical patterns...
So after a day of being decidedly unhappy with life, I went to my supervisor and (got something in my eye which made the whole situation mildly more awkward than usual) was all stressed out (something along the lines of 'I don't understand it and I don't know what to do!') which I never do usually. I'm supposedly a very calm student, so it really freaked him out. and he did the usual making-me-feel-better-while-doing-nothing-to-help-me thing, and said we'd look at it this morning.
So I went home and fell asleep over my ecophys paper (again) and came back this mornign to find that he's not here.
So I'm going to go and try and figure it out all over again.
Friday, October 13, 2006
stats is evil!!!
Posted by Helen at 10:27 am
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Good luck my friend. Stats is one of the reasons I never wanted to go to grad school for psychology. I hated statistics in undergrad. You may not know this but stats are very important in psych if your going to publish any report.
You need to figure out a way to force your supervisor to come to Wits consistently, at the same time, on a daily basis...
Perhaps steal all the coffee in his house and then provide hime with a wide selection at Wits...?
Flavoured coffees...blends...
good plan! Except for 2 things:
1) that would involve going to his house and interacting with the various animals. Maybe the Australian can help here?
2) all that coffee would mean that he would need to be released for bathroom breaks. Which means that he could make a run for it and go buy coffee. Unless you intend to accompany him on said bathroom breaks?
Good thinking though, keep it up!
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