Is there anyone out there doing a professional doctorate? I'm currently writing my thesis for mine, in a psychology field, and I'm in absolute despair. My supervisor has guided me towards doing a study which is fundamentally flawed. It's so unbelievably bad that I am dreading submitting it. She is not an academic and has no understanding of even basic statistics or research design. Has anyone had experience of doing a viva in a similar field? How high are the standards? The only strength I have is writing, I've sailed through other assignments on the course simply because of this fact. I am feeling atrocious about this, can barely get myself out of bed in the morning.