Monday, May 17, 2010

Stats scare me like hell

Ok, here I am. Been struggling with my data all this time. I entered all the pre-tests to SPSS and met a statistician, then another, then another and was still lost. I sat down to work but kept staring at the screen. Literally, statistics is a different language to me and I don't understand a word. I feel like stupid and inadequate and it keeps getting worse. I am also very stressed about it because I want to present some of my results in my next report which is in like 20 days!

Today, I decided to go to the statistics department of my university and hire someone to help me! Luckily, a friend of mine referred me to his friend and he agreed to help me. You have no idea how relieved I feel now - well not much haha. Because I've been disappointed enough about statistics before and I will only stop stressing out when I finish my data analysis I guess.

So, this week I'm going out of town to attend a holiday-like symposium (yay!), and when I come back next week I'll hopefully start working on my stats again.

Stats give me butterflies! and sleepless nights!

PS: Today I collected my last follow-up test. So, finally done with data collection!

Edit: Hahaha I love google ads. As soon as I posted this blog, I got an ad saying 'Need help with your data analysis?' Oh, sure I do!

3 comments:

Juan Carlos said...

After reading all you have to do to finish PhD I think I will never continue mine :S. But I' sure you're strong enough to finish and beat stats. You can do it! :)

PS. Where are you going for 'holidays'? If there's beach, please take me :D

Esra said...

Thanksss! I'm going to Antalya - mediterranean coast for work, you know :D

Erica said...

Keep up the great work, Esra! You can do it, and I cannot wait until I'm in Europe again so we can see each other and finally go to Berlin together as we've talked about for so long. Perhaps we should chat on skype and pick a date so that you're motivated to finish your dissertation and I'm motivated enough to start seriously saving money so I can afford this trip. Let me know what you think!

Enjoy the symposium! :)

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