| | This week has been so busy. Seeing as it's Dead Week, it all makes sense lol. I've got my poster presentation for my statistics project that I've been working on all semester coming up in less than an hour. I think that it will be interesting to see others' reactions when they see that our sum of squares within is about 860,000...which, in lamens terms, means that what we were measuring did not quite explain our results. It could have been the way that we were measuring it. We were trying to expand on research for the Mozart Effect. We were seeing if music tempo affected spatial-reasoning performance and/or memory. Seeing that one of our tasks, a maze (the spatial task), took a considerable amount of time for some to finish, while others just blazed through it, could have skewed our results. It also could have been to do with construct validity, or if we were measuring what we were thinking that we were measuring. Our tasks, a maze (for spatial) and a memory card game (for memory), could have not been accurate measures for spatial reasoning or memory. Because of our lack of time, and, in some ways, knowledge (as we were learning the material at the same time as our testing), we weren't expecting us to have a scientific breakthrough or anything. Not saying you shouldn't doubt yourself, but, to be honest, we weren't expecting it. Because of our lack of time we couldn't make good quality testing measures. I was thinking it would be cool to use Raven's Matrices, but it would have cost money, which is something that I don't have a lot of lol. We tried our best, and that was all that we could give. It was more about learning the statistical tests and applying them than it was about getting significant results, although getting at least one hypothesis right would have been nice. It will be over soon, and then I could get started on my paper...lol/AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!.....(which deserves yet another lol). To be honest, I'm not sure as to why they call this week Dead Week if we have to attend classes, and have things due during that time. I wish that I could have an entire week to devote to studying for my finals, getting enough sleep, eating well...If only if only I guess. Almost every other college or university is said to have a real Dead Week, as compared to a fake one lol. I've been really sleep deprived for the past couple of days, getting only about 5 hours of sleep. I've been realizing how much sleep (or lack thereof) could affect performance levels (of all kinds). Mainly for me, it's athletic and academic. Anyways, I have to get ready for my poster session!
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