Conference Season
Not long now until I make my annual trip to the Psychonomics conference. This year it's in Long Beach. I've never been to California. This should be interesting.
Our lab is grinding hard on running participants. We have nearly thirty (30) timeslots signed up this week to get to our target sample size (n = 20). With the overkill, and the fact that we really only need ten more participants, I think we'll make it. Of course, the overkill is because we need to grab a few extras for a control study that is missing four good participants, and also to account for participants not showing up. Like today. Where my two morning timeslots did not get filled.
Up next, after all the data has been collected, we will analyze it and create a poster to display our findings. Then we'll print it off and hop on a plane to Long Beach, show the findings for a few hours in a hotel conference room, then collapse in exhaustion.
Did I mention that on top of all of this, I have to run a psychometrics project (specifically, I need to collect data to use in an Exploratory Factor Analysis), give a third exam to my class, assemble a prelim committee, and stay afloat in the literature so I can sound halfway intelligent to the throngs at psychonomics?
Yup. Just another typical November as a grad student.
Our lab is grinding hard on running participants. We have nearly thirty (30) timeslots signed up this week to get to our target sample size (n = 20). With the overkill, and the fact that we really only need ten more participants, I think we'll make it. Of course, the overkill is because we need to grab a few extras for a control study that is missing four good participants, and also to account for participants not showing up. Like today. Where my two morning timeslots did not get filled.
Up next, after all the data has been collected, we will analyze it and create a poster to display our findings. Then we'll print it off and hop on a plane to Long Beach, show the findings for a few hours in a hotel conference room, then collapse in exhaustion.
Did I mention that on top of all of this, I have to run a psychometrics project (specifically, I need to collect data to use in an Exploratory Factor Analysis), give a third exam to my class, assemble a prelim committee, and stay afloat in the literature so I can sound halfway intelligent to the throngs at psychonomics?
Yup. Just another typical November as a grad student.
posted by Raoul The Destroyer at 9:45 AM
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