Passed!
Yesterday I passed my dissertation defense! Already it feels like a distant blurry memory. It was great having so many friends there, and my parents were able to drive in from Peoria (although when Dad…
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel…
Two weeks from today. October 16. 1:00pm (eastern). I’ll be defending my dissertation. It’s hard to believe it’s almost here. If all goes well (and even if it doesn’t), soon I won’t be a student…
Sometimes It Works After All
I got this graph today. I’m not going to go into what it means right now. Suffice it to say that it’s real data from my experiments. It’s preliminary analysis, but I think there’s something…
Getting Subjects
The subject pool might be a bigger problem than I thought at first. It seems from what I’ve been hearing that the Michigan Paid Experiments pool isn’t being maintained. The software is still the same…
Incentives
I’m thinking today about incentives. In my first experiment, subjects were given the incentive that the PPT they created would be graded on a scale of 1 to 10, and if they received a 10,…
Prepping for Ann Arbor
So it’s been a while. I should try to post here more often. Coming up to a meeting with the committee on Thursday morning. They’ve had a chance to read over results from the first…
Prepping for Experiment #2
Today was mostly spent working on the procedure/overview document for my 2nd experiment. I need to get this done tomorrow so that I can get the IRB application in by next Tuesday (the due date…