well I've been up and down to screwfix today as I was the person who purchased the radiators so have had to be there with my card to return them for different ones :-s

Just taken dog for a walk so may try and get in another hour to finish this off

I'm getting there - I can feel the afternoon sleeps coming on though :-(

Hubs is also listening to football whilst doing heating, so him and his dad are doing lots of "GET IIIINNN!" shouting which is quite annoying

Hi Eska & MissPiggy!

I've done my first paragraph (whic his actually 3 paragraphs now), so I'm pleased. Now the REALLY horrible bit.

Say what I've found BEYOND existing research and how I've added - YUK!

my father in law is now here putting in radiators so although its a good excuse to stay hidden upstairs, it also means there's a lot of banging and "coorrrrrr dear - why d'ya do that!?" and "pass me the pipe" etc - quite loud

Anyone here today?

I have a horrible goal today, of re-writing (for the 10th time) the discussion section of the current chapter I'm working on - I've been putting it off for 3 days but it needs to get done - someone else isn't going to write it for me are they? Are they????? 8-)

Ok, no they won't. So I have to get it done today as tomorrow is a family-meet-up so all time will be wasted!

Breaking it up into smaller sections.....

Goal 1: write a paragraph on how my findings have repeated existing research. I'll give myself until 11.30 to do that.

hope you find your passport Emmaki!

Award for least helpful feedback on a thesis goes to my supervisor for.......

a big ? in the middle of a page - well, I'll be sure to correct whatever it is you were questionning :-s

second what's already been said - you've been such an amazing source of help and inspiration on the forum! you will be missed!

I was given this list as general ones - freaks me out a bit though!

In one sentence, what is your thesis?
What do you think you have done that merits a award of a PhD?
Why were you interested in this research topic?
Whom do you think would be most interested in your work?
Summarise your key findings. What was the most interesting to you?
What have you learnt from your research experience?
What would you do differently if you could do your thesis again?
What advice would you give to a new research student entering this topic area?
What are the most recent major developments in your area?
Which are the three most important papers that relate to your thesis?
How does your research relate to these?
What is your original contribution to research in your subject area?
Has your view of your research topic changed during the course of the research?
What are the main achievements of your research?
What are any alternatives to the approach or method you used? Why did you decide not to use them?
What published work is closest to what you have done? How is your work different?
How do you know that your findings are correct?
How long term is your contribution
Have you thought about publications? Which journals are appropriate?
What were the crucial research decisions you made?
What do you see as the next steps in this research?

I will be murdering someone today! :-s Cannot decipher ANY of sup's handwriting -she seems ro abbreviate words to nonsense and also scribble them e.g. 'research' becomes jhg or something ARGH!

morning all.

I have lots of goals today. I want to get my results and discussion done for this cahpter though - so that's the main one (and one I'm dreading!)

I also have to ring an online store to see if they have radiators in stock - joy.

That's crazy talk. Bold AND italics!!!?

I guess I'll go with italics. I prefer blue, but I can see that if my examiner is traditional, then they may be blown out of the water with blue text lol and may take their revenge by failing me. Also I can see my sup will not let me submit until its italics.

:-s

Just so everyone is clear - it looks much better in blue! :-s (turkey)

it could be difference coloured for htings unique to penguins and things unique for polar bears. But it looks clearer if its blue for unique things in general.

no its shaded text, not cells

The table is a full a4 page and is basically a list of about 50 things on the left and 45 on the right. And at the moment about 20 on each side are blue.

I wanted it to be like 'BAM - here are the differences' - hence the blue. Maybe she thinks it doens't look 'professional' enough?

i have a table....

on the left column is things that penguins found interesting in the sea e.g.

Fish
shells
seaweed

On the right column are things that polar bears found interesting in the sea - SOME are the SAME! e.g.

Fish
Whales
Shells
Seaweed

Now for clarity, I coloured anything in blue, which were unique to the penguins or polar bears, so everything they share stays black text.

My sup wants me to change it from blue to just being black italic text - she seems to think that I'll be printing it out with some kind of 19th century printing press and won't be able to have colour/ thinks for journals they'll prefer italic, but this is my thesis - CONFUSED!

congrats delta! I'm so happy that you got it in and also extremely jealous haha!

I'm just plugging away still, my submission date has been moved AGAIN and I'm re-doing ANOTHER chapter AGAIN. She finally has read it all through though, so there is some hope. I just wish she'd done this earlier - like a year ago. But I'm resigned to a viva after xmas now and submission probably end of nov (Although submission date at the mo is mid-nov). I have so much to do on it!

I'm sure it will be fine - I'd love to just submit and take the amendments now, much better than trying to guess what amendments they'd want now which is what I feel like I'm doing.

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why is it non-parametric. I'd bootstrap and run parametric tests if its just non-normal/small sample size. so you could do a load (15) independent t-tests, but then you'd have to apply the boneferroni correction, so your p value would have to be < .003, rather than <.05 to be significant

Have you thought about doing something like cluster analysis or multi dimensional scaling so you can visually see where your data is clustering e.g. group 1 or group 2 or locations?