brewings ([info]brewings) wrote,
@ 2006-04-16 19:01:00
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Current location:SPSS land
Current mood: accomplished
Current music:Army of Lovers - Let the Sunshine In

don't tell anyone
I've been ....ing (insert your favorite verb here) with my data for the last three days. If you've never encountered the monster, hiding under the name of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, you are plain lucky. Computer programmers can probably relate to the agony of staring at thousands of lines of data and code, and trying to locate the damn character (!) that causes the whole thing to crash.

Well, I managed to find numerous such characters and delete them with pagan ritual music playing in the background (kidding, I don't have such music... but if anyone does, do share!).

Here's the secret: now that the ugliest part of code-staring is over, I allowed myself to take a break. Guilt-free leisure - something I know nothing about. Well, after running few tests on reliability of my questionnaires, I paused... and CONTINUED working!!! Now that the numbers are working, and combine, magically arranging themselves into tables and histograms that I can understand, as compared to WARNING #4506 announcements, this is actually engaging...




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