a substantial amount?

Congrats Doc! Truly minor corrections!

I try not to take my glasses off anymore because the blurriness is far too shocking now. I don't dare get a new prescription! Just in case I get asked something like, "How do you even get around?", or, "Hello? I'm over here."

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Classic in-group/out-group behaviour 8-) We should really be the most aware of this rather than amoung the most susceptible!

EDIT: Slightly relevant :D http://xkcd.com/435/

Ive heard similar grumblings in my department. But then the psych department and the clinical aren't even on the same campus here. There's a definate divide, between research and the applied.

(up) That's a plan I can get behind!

Do they count as two seperate DV's though or two measures of the same DV? If that makes any sense. They're both measures of the level of the same chemical, just from two different locations.

I feel your pain. There's a dog outside thats been barking all day
:-s

Is it not just one big mixed ANOVA? I'm getting confused too. The scores above and below the measure being the within and the groups (inhibitor/concentration) being the between?

So a 3 X 3 X 2?

I could be way off though.

What Sneaks said :)

Pretty sure it's a repeated measures t-test. Again, more used to people though. You're testing the difference between the above and below across all the cells. It's when you start looking at the difference between the above and below within and between individual cells that it becomes ANOVA territory.

It does. Several times. I've had my girlfriend ring me and declare within minutes, quite accurately, that the work has driven me mad. And if you're writing up from home rather than Uni you'll probably get a big dose of cabin fever too!

Exactly.

If you present work that someone else has done, as your own, then that's cheating. It doesn't matter if people get together and do it as a group, or whether it's done because they think a particular assignment is pointless/beneath them. It's cheating.

And like Gennia points out, you're just wasting your time. If an assignment is to have any benefit then it has to be done. You're not going to learn or get better at techniques by osmosis. Niether are you going to be able to have a group huddle during exams or real life situations.



But it's not unavoidable. You could just do the work - individually, as set. It's not like someone is holding you to gun point and making you cheat.

There's absolutely no reason to cheat there. The work's part of the degree. It's to prove to people you can do it, consistantly, as well as give you the practice and experience you need. If you can do it, like you said, then just do it. If you can't do it then you get official help or just put some effort in and get through it. It's how you learn.



But it's the very definition of cheating. It doesn't matter how you justify it, or how well you tie yourself up in knots so that you don't feel bad. It's still by it's very nature cheating. All you're doing it attempting to defuse the congitive dissonance that comes along with it. It's the same with anything from academic answers. It doesn't matter whether people dress it up as reference material that's not meant to be handed in or as a study guide. It's handing in someone elses work.

Grrr. Sorry I'm ranting but cheating gets to me. I worked hard for my degree, and my current PhD. And during my teaching and marking I've seen plenty of other people work hard too. It doesn't seem fair that our efforts should be essentially devalued by other people taking the easy route. I feel the same about quacks and such. Take Gillian McKeith. She tried to pass herself off as a Doctor (medical or PhD) and lots of people beleived her and bought into it. In reality her qualification can be bought. It's not from an accredited institution and you can't get a copy of her thesis. She's not earnt the title, she's not done the work and she shouldn't get to use it. Just like if someone cheats when it comes to their degree. If you've not done the work you don't deserve the degree, no matter how you dress it up.

I feel the same when they ask for previous employment and explanations of any gaps. If I miss bits out because they're not relevant then it looks like I'm bone idle. If I include them then I feel daft writing down my experience working for Subway when I'm applying for academia.

Sorry to hear about that Chelleer :-(

To me it actually sounds like you have a case for complaint against the people involved. As far as I'm aware Dyslexia is considered a disability under the disability act of 1995, and I imagine the most recent one as well. That should be taken into account by the department. It doesn't matter that it's at PhD level. Yes ultimately you have to deal with it yourself and put the effort in and changes you need to make but the department should still have to take it into account internally.

That's outright ignorance. It's not an excuse, it's a recognised disability and should be treated as such. A wheelchair user wouldn't be told to try harder when confronted with some stairs, the hearing impaired wouldn't be told to just listen harder if they were struggling etc. If you've been given help and received understanding from the department and are still struggling then thats a different matter and is just related to your suitability to completely a phd. But from the sounds of it they've not made any attempts within the department, and they seem very closed minded.

When I was testing and teaching I did very little work on my thesis. At least directly.

I'd test from 11 - 5/6 four days a week, and then teach one afternoon. In the evenings I would do 1 or 2 hours of entering the data I'd collected during the week and some analysis. The only work I did that directly related to my thesis in terms of writing up was when I'd take a weekend here or there to write up the procedure or results section for an experiment or paper. And I've since more or less just copied and pasted them into my thesis.

Now I'm writing up I don't aim for any particular set amount of time. I just try and get at least a few bits and pieces every day so I don't lose too much momentum. If I have a good day and get 6 hours in then great, if not then I'm fine with just a few.

As has been mentioned though I wouldn't compare with other people. Even within a deparment there's a lot of variation, and of course people have different styles. There are some people I've hardly even seen in Uni who are on course to finish in time, and others who practically live there who aren't too far ahead me.

Work smart not hard 8-)