I swear we've had this post before, like a year ago?

oh dear, I can't join you - I have NO brain :-(

I do find it slightly amusing that you're waiting for your sup to peg it. Have you thought about applying elsewhere first? :p

bang it repeatedly on the desk. Put the cat near it. Buy a new one.

dog walk done, tea brewing. Onwards! Why is it that every convo with sup leaves me feeling wretched and demoralised? surely this isn't what her supervision should do??

try Nomis.co.uk as a starting point. Also ESDS and the UK data archive.

right, dog walk - clear my head, take my rage out on the field and then come back and plan the lecture for next week, so I can then get on with my PhD tomorrow.

just create a normal table with all the cells you need. Then take off ALL the borders (but make it so you can still 'view gridlines') and then just insert the horizontal borders you need

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just had convo with sup who has 'briefly skimmed' my thesis. Her main suggestion is to edit it (its too long) and to move a bit of the discussion of one chapter into the intro of the next. GUESS WHAT I spent ALL last week moving this section from the later intro, to the earlier discussion because that's what she said she wanted :-s :-s :-s :-s and she said "oh I bet you're really frustrated with the process now" and I was thinking "well no, just with YOU" ARGH!

Plus she doesn't relaly give any indication of the quality of the thesis except "don't get me wrong, it is good BUT there's [a million problems with it]"

and as my mother in law is fond of saying "everything before the BUT is Bullsh*t"

still doing my analyses. I also have to really get on with this lecture prep.

I've decided for the seminar to print off news stories, relating to the topic (but are more fun) and get each group to read the articles and present it to the group- I'll give them 3-4 things they need to cover in the presentation.

I was thinking, give their groups (they're already divided up into presentation groups) a topic - give them 10 mins to look into it, and then each group has to do a 5-10 min presentation. Hubster thinks the topics should relate to what the presentation was supposed to be on, but finding it difficult to do that!

yes, having watched DA, I've strangely considering going to buy appropriate attire and doing my lecture in the style of Mary tomorrow lol.

I'm in a bit of a bind, I have a seminar that students were supposed to present in, all the stuednts in the group have gone AWOL, so have to think of something to fill the hour. I should stick to something around practising presentations, but can't think of what to give them to do!

Yeah, I'd go with 6 in each cell, but then, for I'd go with whatever works and then reference it anyway :p

Bootstrap - on later versions of SPSS there is a button on the MANOVA pop up - near the usual ones, that says 'bootstrap' - have a quick google, its basically a resampling technique, but enhances the robustness of the test.

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I'd take it as more than 6 in each cell. I'd then stick in a load of references to support you doing this. I'd also bootstrap the analysis you can do this on SPSS 19 and if this is for your PhD, I'd definately do this with difference sizes in each group.

E.g. MANOVA was used with X Y and Z as DVs and A as an IV, this methods was chosen because it provides enhanced power (Refs), the sample size was also adequate for the analysis (ref ref)

Good morning all. I've driven for an hour already, walked the dog and watched downton abbey :$ my excuse is that the sky man is coming to change the box, so all our recorded programmes will be lost, so it had to be watched :$

I now have LOTS of things to do. Mainly, I Have to do lots of analyses for another project. I also have to have a lecture planned and onto moodle by tomorrow evening. I also have to practice going through the slides for the lecture I have tomorrow.

I also have a research interview at lunchtime. Busy busy busy!

my husband has just suggested that perhaps my Supervisor owns 'johnny no. 5' (if you can remember that) and that's how she gets me feedback so quickly (I sent her thesis last night and got an email early this morning saying it looks broadly ok) - those 80,000 words must have been a quick read lol.