Heinous Plot
In my never-ending quest to get into grad school when I don't deserve to, I've come up with a heinous plan to fool admissions committies into overlooking my mediocre above average grades and test scores.
I had this idea to do a massive survey of the Pagan community. The survey would attempt to determine if Pagan practices are based or influenced on what they read, whether practices and common books vary by gender age or generation, location and the activity of the local community.
It'd be a bitch of a survey. The hardest part will be determining what religious practices or theologies might come out of certain books. I might think a practice comes out of a certain book but another researcher might not. And certain authors often base their practices on certain books, or don't realize they are based on the ideas of certain authors. I'm just not sure how to make the research valid. I have a prof here who is an experts at the tedium of survey making.
Ideally, I could carefully document my research, cite things and quote academic authors, create the survey, analyze the heck out of it and publish the results. I think Pomegranate: the Journal of Pagan Studies would publish it. I might even get someone there to help me with it. I kinda feel like I can't or shouldn't do it by myself. I mean, statistics. That has to do with math, and I don't know shit about statistics.
But maybe the whole thing is just way too much work. I mean, I'm not super-busy now, but maybe next week will be different. School starts tomorrow, but I don't have classes on Wednesday anyway. I dunno. Anyone feeling academic want in on this?
I had this idea to do a massive survey of the Pagan community. The survey would attempt to determine if Pagan practices are based or influenced on what they read, whether practices and common books vary by gender age or generation, location and the activity of the local community.
It'd be a bitch of a survey. The hardest part will be determining what religious practices or theologies might come out of certain books. I might think a practice comes out of a certain book but another researcher might not. And certain authors often base their practices on certain books, or don't realize they are based on the ideas of certain authors. I'm just not sure how to make the research valid. I have a prof here who is an experts at the tedium of survey making.
Ideally, I could carefully document my research, cite things and quote academic authors, create the survey, analyze the heck out of it and publish the results. I think Pomegranate: the Journal of Pagan Studies would publish it. I might even get someone there to help me with it. I kinda feel like I can't or shouldn't do it by myself. I mean, statistics. That has to do with math, and I don't know shit about statistics.
But maybe the whole thing is just way too much work. I mean, I'm not super-busy now, but maybe next week will be different. School starts tomorrow, but I don't have classes on Wednesday anyway. I dunno. Anyone feeling academic want in on this?