Is it for a masters starting in October 2010? If so, it might just be because you applied so early. Couldn't hurt to follow it up though, so you at least get some idea of when they will make a decision.

I'm in psychology and that sounds about right. Most people will start collecting data quite quickly but do the reading simultaneously. Probably you had some experiments planned in your proposal anyway and that's what you're doing now? I don't really think it's about being a cheap RA, more about wanting to see if your first idea will generate some interesting data and leaving you enough time to move on to Plan B if it doesn't work out.

I saw avatar a couple days ago, it was brilliant. I think it's the 3D making you feel like you're actually there. :-)

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Hey Buttercup,

Don't multiply what's in the brackets, that's just a reference to some characteristics of your data. In the brackets, substitute DFhyp with the degrees of freedom for your variable, and substitute DFerr with the degrees of freedom for the error - these values should be in the output of whatever stats package you're using.
e.g. if DFhyp=2 and DFerr=29, write "F(2,29)=..."

Keenbean's right, it's r squared that gives you proportion of variance explained.

And yeah, that's what you say about multicolinearity, but I think you should say which variable they are multicollinear with e.g.
"Variables X3 and X4 have been excluded from the model because they have multicolinearity with variable X1"

If you're applying for PhD then you should already have made contact with a prospective supervisor. So you could ask them to provide you with old proposals that their current PhD students used to apply.

I doubt anyone on here will send you their own proposal because they're not published articles so there's nothing to stop you using it yourself.

Ah... I understand this so well. I bought the first book on Sunday... I'm now just starting the last one. :$ Needless to say, work has fallen by the wayside a little bit this week...

My view on this is regardless of what mark you get, you should always be asking for feedback on how to improve. And when you do, if you don't understand it or agree with it, it's absolutely fair to ask the person to elaborate.
So take a couple of days to get your head together, then go see the marker and ask them about the feedback they gave you. You don't have to mention that you're thinking of making a complaint, just get the record straight on why you got the low mark. If you still think the grade wasn't fair, then they can always bring in someone else (e.g. external examiner) to investigate.

I think the answer to 2 would be that as the lift starts to fall you get thrown up to the ceiling. Then basically you are free-falling at the same speed as the lift - it hits the ground first and then you smash into the floor of the lift and die. There would be nowhere to jump from cos you wouldn't be touching the floor?
Or maybe you would stay on the floor, but you couldn't counter the force of gravity pulling you down enough to try to jump? Hmm.

No corrections is awesome! (up)

Congratulations, very well done 8-)

Maybe once you've had a chance to celebrate, you can give some tips on the viva?