SPSS has once again bemused me, panicked me and reminded me why I don't do quantitative anymore!!
So there I was quite happily developing my data set for a piece of research I'm doing. I finished it, smiled, and pressed save. Low and behold, SPSS did not like this. Instead it shouted at me... "ERROR, ERROR!! You CANNOT possibly save this file" (not exact quote, but near enough).
Well, thanks for that SPSS, but why can't I save my file?
After doing some investigating on the t'internet, i find that well maybe I can get my answer in an output screen. I check. It turned out SPSS just didn't like that I called one of my variables "Q7b". It didn't take offence with Q7a, or even Q17b. Just Q7b. I'm not really sure what Q7b must have done to offend my dear friend SPSS, but it must have been bad. Anyway, I changed the variable name, and it let me save.
SPSS is officially ridiculous!
To make matters even worse, I have officially run out of ready salted crisps and am now being forced to eat cheese and onion. Hmph!