wow, I've spent ALL day getting a paper ready for submission - its so nearly there. Off to sup for final check (I bet she changes it ALL and I have to re-do it tomorrow!)

I've seen one on simple-ology. But I'm not sure how 'safe' it is, although loads of people recommend it.

I think its defense in American? http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

Thanks Olivia, I *think* I've changed it all over. Including judgement

I feel like a sell out though :-( and want to stick a 'colour' in for the hell of it :p

I don't want to change the spell checker cos of my references, although I suppose I could as it wouldn't automatically change them.

What's their versio of analysis? analyzis???

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don't think I'll use either of them. But do they say analyziz??? haha! I am now lost it the world of stupid spelling

:-s

I'm having to change a paper over to american spelling. I have behavior, center, organization

Is there any words I may have missed?

I really would meet them, even if its only for an informal coffee, otherwise you're just another name and they'll forget about the project, other things will come up etc etc. Also think about how much you're willing to compromise your research e.g. I had a woman who wanted to put a load of questions into my questionnaire which made it about 8 pages long! I had to compromise to get the best of both worlds i.e. she sent it around all her contacts, so I still got all the info, but with a little added, and then I had to produce a report for her.

I'd prepare a project brief (in case they ask for one) - make this no more than 1 page of A4, they won't read it otherwise and will lose interest in the research. Arrange to meet them. The scary thing to remember is that for you this is a big meeting and very important for you, for them its a very small thing during the day - I found it hard to remember that when doing my research and then got frustrated when people didn't drop everything for me. The key thing they will be interested in is a) impact on them - what can you transfer from the research, what are the PRACTICAL benefits, b) how will the info be used, I had to sign an agreement about how I'd describe the org in any publications (not allowed to name it), and how data would be treated e.g. kept locked up, password protected etc.

You want from this meeting a) a key point of contact, to go to with any questions. This is likely to be someone junior as senior people will just ignore the emails. b) set up a date for the first part of the research - even if its only tentative.

I spent all yesterday in bed with a horrible headache, nausea and sore throat. Now I just have a slight headache and sore throat :-( So I've started work a bit late, with some beechams.

Goal 1: Look at journal rules and finish paper for submission
Goal 2: Do presentation slides

Urgh my supervisor has just asked me to submit to a conference - but it will cost me about £600 to go and my funding has run out. I have no idea where she thinks I'm going to magic up this money from?? so I've had to embarrassingly admit to her I can't afford it. :$ :$ :$ :$ :$ :$

Hi Satchi, I would say that 'comparative analysis' is comparing two or more things. So ANOVA would be, as would t-test.

A regression is looking more at predicting a relationship.

I could be wrong though.

rubbish, it wasn't me, and I was kind of banking on it too. Now I'm going to have to get a job!

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my supervisor re-edited my work AGAIN yesterday and has removed one hypothesis, so only testing one (which I find non-sig), so just moving all the literature about the other into the discussion (where it was originally, about 10 edits ago)

the problem before I think was that it wasn't really the null vs the real hypothesis. because H1 was "there will be no difference between groups, they will BOTH score 5", whereas hypothesis 2 was "there will be a difference, group 1 will score 0 and group 2 will score -4" - so although one said there will be no difference, it wasn't really the null, because its specifying the type of relationship too. confusing!

anyway problem solved, in a very annyoying way! :-s

my brain aches (mince)