Maybe this is how OCD starts...
I've been counting the first 300 words produced by 2 bilingual kids. I've been doing this for a while, putting them all into their different categories so I can analyse them the way I want to. And all I've succeeded in doing is making tables with numbers in. Numbers never did make much sense to me; I need things explained in prose - 'Table 1 shows that X which means Y' is a good sentence skeleton for me.
Problem is, the numbers don't even add up right. Total vocab should always be 300, and yet suspiciously isn't. I don't know where I've gone wrong. I don't know how I got two extra words in there. I really don't want to go picking through my data set to find out, because it will take forever, and most likely wind up giving me a total of 299, or something similar.
Oh, update on the York Award - turns out I sound a lot more positive when I stop being angry. Who knew? Resubmission has gone. Now to see if I can be suitably positive (and employable) in the interview!
Problem is, the numbers don't even add up right. Total vocab should always be 300, and yet suspiciously isn't. I don't know where I've gone wrong. I don't know how I got two extra words in there. I really don't want to go picking through my data set to find out, because it will take forever, and most likely wind up giving me a total of 299, or something similar.
Oh, update on the York Award - turns out I sound a lot more positive when I stop being angry. Who knew? Resubmission has gone. Now to see if I can be suitably positive (and employable) in the interview!