Paedantic Basterd

The problem with textbooks is that they're written by people. They're a starting point--a foothold--but their primary purpose is to teach you how to read and recall. Also to bankrupt you and send you to an early grave.

prisoner437x3y0

what are you working on now?

Paedantic Basterd

We are re-tooling the systematic review for re-submission elsewhere. I am also helping write an article that looks at early childhood antedecents to social adjustment, and I am writing a linear regression package for R.

You said you are nearly done your B.Sc. What year does that put you in?

prisoner437x3y0

senior, from a fairly renowned(?) college of psychology too.

Don't know what most what you said meant really...I'm serious

pretty good academic standing too for some reason, probably free time

Paedantic Basterd

No, that's my fault for assuming. If you sit in an office with the same team of people and you talk about the same thing for too long, you start to think it's common knowledge for everyone, hah.

We took some data from a few years ago and looked at it a second time with new statistical procedures, and we found a different relationship in the results. We're currently writing up those findings, with the intent to submit early next year.

As for the regression thing, there's free open-source statistics software that any old shmuck can program, and this has been gaining popularity in universities, because it's free and more versatile than SPSS. So I've been learning how to write in the R programming language to create a program that will perform a series of procedures (regression) on data.

Do you intend to continue in psychology, or is the B.Sc. a step towards something different?

prisoner437x3y0

i was gonna do law but i think i mostly like telling people that for the immediate discretion they give me

As I said in a different thread I'm not going to do much with it.

This difference in results you found the second time, i must stress though (and without knowledge or data consistency in other scientific fields) is really common with psych it seems

Paedantic Basterd

I think psychology is a very useful stepping stone into law.

And yes, but what isn't explained better by adding more variables to it? Fortunately, what we discovered was that our non-significant linear relationship was actually a curvilinear relationship, which is much more interesting than just chucking variables at it and seeing what sticks.

Zhanteimi

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prisoner437x3y0

your not far off batlord damn if i only i could regail in the smug internet elitism alas im on the suicide not watch