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Nov. 8th, 2009 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordI'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:
OMG KAJ IS FROM THE FUTURE! I both love and hate this development. I love it because it's a cool twist and it allowed Erica to go to the future and help him out. I hate it because OH NO DOES THIS MEAN KAJ IS GOING TO WORK OUT HIS ISSUES AND EVENTUALLY GO BACK TO THE FUTURE? DNW. I enjoy Kaj so much! I think I ship him with Erica, but even without that, I still want him around. But I definitely find him and Erica much more interesting and intriguing than her and Ethan, who have just been horribly boring. And it pains me to say that because I love Tyron Leitso, but I do not enjoy Ethan very much. bah. I hope Kaj is able to permanently stay in the past but still work through his issues somehow, even though it doesn't seem likely.
Yay, this show is back! I don't really have much to say about it, but I've been kind of really missing it the past few weeks, which is weird since I started getting kind of bored with it last season. But all of a sudden I'm really into it again.
Richard's new hair and facial hair makes him look really weird to me. It'll take me a little while to get used to it. Overall, I really enjoyed the episode. I'm intrigued as to where they're going with it. I know that in the long run I can't see them making Richard not the Seeker permanently or him going evil permanently or anything like that, but I'm interested in how they deal with the prophecy and how it'll play out. And I kind of loved the part where Kahlan was asked if she loved Richard and they both were like "Well, yeah, duh" but they couldn't be together because of her being the Confessor. I mean, I usually hate when couples are driven apart because of external factors like that, but for some reason here it's working for me. I like at this point that they both know that they love each other and they can't do anything about it.
Also, I really randomly enjoyed how it was basically like "Oh no! The Boxes of Orden (or whatever) caused the Underworld to be able to come up to the world of the living! The only way we can stop it is if we find this OTHER magical random device, much as how we were searching for the boxes all last season!" I don't know, I just find it amusing and silly how there are always these random magical devices they need to find that will fix everything. I mean, I'm not really critiquing it; that's part of why I love this show. It can be so ridiculous.
Anyways, yay that this is back on!
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:
OMG KAJ IS FROM THE FUTURE! I both love and hate this development. I love it because it's a cool twist and it allowed Erica to go to the future and help him out. I hate it because OH NO DOES THIS MEAN KAJ IS GOING TO WORK OUT HIS ISSUES AND EVENTUALLY GO BACK TO THE FUTURE? DNW. I enjoy Kaj so much! I think I ship him with Erica, but even without that, I still want him around. But I definitely find him and Erica much more interesting and intriguing than her and Ethan, who have just been horribly boring. And it pains me to say that because I love Tyron Leitso, but I do not enjoy Ethan very much. bah. I hope Kaj is able to permanently stay in the past but still work through his issues somehow, even though it doesn't seem likely.
Yay, this show is back! I don't really have much to say about it, but I've been kind of really missing it the past few weeks, which is weird since I started getting kind of bored with it last season. But all of a sudden I'm really into it again.
Richard's new hair and facial hair makes him look really weird to me. It'll take me a little while to get used to it. Overall, I really enjoyed the episode. I'm intrigued as to where they're going with it. I know that in the long run I can't see them making Richard not the Seeker permanently or him going evil permanently or anything like that, but I'm interested in how they deal with the prophecy and how it'll play out. And I kind of loved the part where Kahlan was asked if she loved Richard and they both were like "Well, yeah, duh" but they couldn't be together because of her being the Confessor. I mean, I usually hate when couples are driven apart because of external factors like that, but for some reason here it's working for me. I like at this point that they both know that they love each other and they can't do anything about it.
Also, I really randomly enjoyed how it was basically like "Oh no! The Boxes of Orden (or whatever) caused the Underworld to be able to come up to the world of the living! The only way we can stop it is if we find this OTHER magical random device, much as how we were searching for the boxes all last season!" I don't know, I just find it amusing and silly how there are always these random magical devices they need to find that will fix everything. I mean, I'm not really critiquing it; that's part of why I love this show. It can be so ridiculous.
Anyways, yay that this is back on!
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.
