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Nov. 8th, 2009 04:05 pmI'm in such a good mood right now! I was feeling really crappy on Thursday and Friday because I stalled out on participants for my research project at 25, and my goal had been 100. And I could see other people posting their surveys, and they were getting tons of participants and far surpassing the number I had even though I had posted it earlier. And I had already sent it to most of the people I was planning to, so I was freaking out. But one of my roommates was asking me about the project (she had already taken the survey and sent it to a few of her close friends) and I was telling her how freaked out I was, and she was like "Ok, I'll make a Facebook event and invite every single one of my Facebook friends who are undergrad students even if I don't know them very well!" and within a few hours, my participant number had shot up from 25 to 44. And right now I'm at 83. I sent it to about 4 more people total over the weekend and asked them to send it around, and I know for sure at least 2 of my friends said they were really busy during the week and they'd be able to take it and send it out over the weekend, so I know some of those participants are due to that, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the additional participants I got were due to her doing that. So I'm like totally indebted to her right now because she really, really helped me out there.
Unfortunately I have a problem now. Despite the number of participants, based on the groups of people I'm looking at specifically, I can't really say anything. I don't have nearly enough freshmen, unfortunately. And I can send the survey out to about 20 people on Facebook that I haven't already sent it to and most of whom are freshmen or sophomores (I'm considering grouping freshmen and sophomores into 1 group, so I'd need 50 total; right now I have 35, so sending it to those people should take care of that difference). However, there are... issues with that? Because one of the scales I'm using I had to pay $100 for 100 permissions (meaning 100 people can take it) and the school's psych department is willing to pay up to about $100 for things like that. But I don't know what happens if I go over 100. And it's not like I can control exactly how many people take the survey; I mean, I can send it to exactly 17 people, but they might not all take it, and there might be some people left who have been too busy or don't check their e-mail often and end up taking it later, which would push me over. I'm going to talk to my advisor tomorrow about it because it's kind of a pretty big problem. Hopefully it'll work out.
Random TV thoughts:
( Being Erica )
( Legend of the Seeker )
I've watched other TV, but can't remember any pressing thoughts I had about them. I have a fair amount of work to do this week, although I've been pretty productive this weekend so far. Mostly. Most of the work is in Discrete Math, which sucks. I really, really do not enjoy that class, and I hate how when we have major projects or assignments due, we still have the normal homework/assignments due, so then there's just a huge pile-up of work that takes hours and hours. Particularly since the basic assignments for every class take hours and hours to get through, and even then I don't finish them and there are questions I've answered wrong. Oh well. I need to remember that I'm taking this class pass/fail and I have an A in it right now, so it's not like I need to worry too much about it. Anyways, I've been taking like an hour break, so I should do a little more work before dinner. Only 2 1/2 weeks until Thanksgiving break! I can't wait to be home again and get to relax for a little while.
Unfortunately I have a problem now. Despite the number of participants, based on the groups of people I'm looking at specifically, I can't really say anything. I don't have nearly enough freshmen, unfortunately. And I can send the survey out to about 20 people on Facebook that I haven't already sent it to and most of whom are freshmen or sophomores (I'm considering grouping freshmen and sophomores into 1 group, so I'd need 50 total; right now I have 35, so sending it to those people should take care of that difference). However, there are... issues with that? Because one of the scales I'm using I had to pay $100 for 100 permissions (meaning 100 people can take it) and the school's psych department is willing to pay up to about $100 for things like that. But I don't know what happens if I go over 100. And it's not like I can control exactly how many people take the survey; I mean, I can send it to exactly 17 people, but they might not all take it, and there might be some people left who have been too busy or don't check their e-mail often and end up taking it later, which would push me over. I'm going to talk to my advisor tomorrow about it because it's kind of a pretty big problem. Hopefully it'll work out.
Random TV thoughts:
( Being Erica )
( Legend of the Seeker )
I've watched other TV, but can't remember any pressing thoughts I had about them. I have a fair amount of work to do this week, although I've been pretty productive this weekend so far. Mostly. Most of the work is in Discrete Math, which sucks. I really, really do not enjoy that class, and I hate how when we have major projects or assignments due, we still have the normal homework/assignments due, so then there's just a huge pile-up of work that takes hours and hours. Particularly since the basic assignments for every class take hours and hours to get through, and even then I don't finish them and there are questions I've answered wrong. Oh well. I need to remember that I'm taking this class pass/fail and I have an A in it right now, so it's not like I need to worry too much about it. Anyways, I've been taking like an hour break, so I should do a little more work before dinner. Only 2 1/2 weeks until Thanksgiving break! I can't wait to be home again and get to relax for a little while.
