I got sleep
Having slept in and skipped work as a result, I have regained sanity. Yay sanity. Having had thesis meeting, I realized all that recoding and latency work I did instead of sleeping was pretty much entirely worthless. So that is frustrating, but, I have some idea of how things are and I do ultimately agree with Derek, a second experiment that was a lot cleaner than the first would be a wonderful thing and look good and bring me closer toward publishing, so, yeah, he's right. Everytime he tells me I have plenty of time though, I kinda wanna sock him.
So, first the negatives. 1.) Definitely must run second experiment, 2.) screen is definitely a confound, 3.) all previous work I did to recode and all Anna's coding is totally negated so all that lost sleep was for nothing, 4.) spring break is shot to shit and 5.) I could have dealt with a lot of this by being less cocky about how well piloting went and actually looking at my videos months earlier. Oops. The real major negative is simply taht I have to create definitions for what counts as all these different kinds of choices and so far that is super hard.
But the positives, I've got 22 good dogs out of a pool of 45, which I gather is very much like working with babies. I have a second coder, who is currently the God of my entire universe by virtue of being my second coder and sacrificing like ten hours of spring break at least to make my world a saner happier place. My second experiment should fix a lot of my first experiment, and while all my coding is useless, I actually enjoyed it, and losing sleep while enjoying yourself is okay. It's super interesting stuff to look at. Which means I still love my thesis.
Also, on the internet and off, I have pretty amazing friends and while boyfriend becomes an uber-bachelor in my absence, he's pretty damn wonderful too. With that kind of support network, I will triumph. Rawr.
So, first the negatives. 1.) Definitely must run second experiment, 2.) screen is definitely a confound, 3.) all previous work I did to recode and all Anna's coding is totally negated so all that lost sleep was for nothing, 4.) spring break is shot to shit and 5.) I could have dealt with a lot of this by being less cocky about how well piloting went and actually looking at my videos months earlier. Oops. The real major negative is simply taht I have to create definitions for what counts as all these different kinds of choices and so far that is super hard.
But the positives, I've got 22 good dogs out of a pool of 45, which I gather is very much like working with babies. I have a second coder, who is currently the God of my entire universe by virtue of being my second coder and sacrificing like ten hours of spring break at least to make my world a saner happier place. My second experiment should fix a lot of my first experiment, and while all my coding is useless, I actually enjoyed it, and losing sleep while enjoying yourself is okay. It's super interesting stuff to look at. Which means I still love my thesis.
Also, on the internet and off, I have pretty amazing friends and while boyfriend becomes an uber-bachelor in my absence, he's pretty damn wonderful too. With that kind of support network, I will triumph. Rawr.