data... till i die!

i have sooooooo many things to write about, now that i've started analyzing my data, that i don't think i'll be able to EVER sleep again until i depend the darn thing! i mean, the simplest table is 5 pages long... just to write where the students who answered the questionnaires came from, in every school... then the ages, gender, intent to return to home country, classes they take, reasons for learning english, languages of the teachers, etc. etc. etc.

next week, after we compare the two sets of data (the one i entered and the one veronica entered), we'll start the ANOVAs.... mouahahahahahah, that'll be 500 more pages of results to present and discuss....

i should say that, but i'm almost already bored with these numbers... and after 4 hours of entering them, i become dyslexic and enter 25.4% instead of 52.4%, or stuff like that. oops... today, it was the first time that veronica (the girl who helps me) met melissa (the statistical consultant) and it was fun, we spent two hours talking about SAS and the way we want to do things and how to play with excel to figure out the participants' ages, and how to enter tables or graphs and stuff. veronica's been entering the qualitative codes for question 27 (she lost half of them yesterday and had to retype it all...), and i'm sure she was afraid we'd have to calculate everything by hand. but nope, SAS does miracles! you just have to learn how to use it! .. which might take a couple of years... might even take more time than if you HAD calculated everything by hand....

MOUAH-HA-HA! back to work!