It's that time of year again...

[msjen]

...where I have to go to the Scary Reading Conference and present papers that involve complicated statistics I don't understand. I am usually an author on these papers because I wrote the "intervention," i.e. the curriculum in question, which is great and all, but I am expected to have at least some level of familiarity with what happened beyond "

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[ammonoid]

Well, this is not going to help your immediate situation, but my stats class is not really helping me understand statistics either. Its all about, here is an equation, here is a problem we taught you to solve, go. I understand nada.

:/

At least I understand slightly now the language of statistics, but other than that, I think taking stats this semester has largly been a waste.

[jetspeaks]

Interpreting and using stats correctly is a huge problem around here. In my old lab, knowing how to do a chi squared test made me the lab expert, which was weird. Can your co-worker not help you with a simplified explanation?

[msjen]

Wow. See, I can't even remember how to do that.

As it turns out, there was actually a problem with the data set, so I am not as daft as I thought I was...but, then again, my problem is not that I can't interpret (at least very simple) stats, just that I don't know enough to question how things were done...which is why I didn't discover the problem until it was basically too late. Grrr.

This research business, it is hard and confusing. I do not know how you do it!

[jetspeaks]

Half the time, I don't know how we do it either. :)

[ousel]

I run away screaming from all of this.

Don't be me. Ask the nice people with the numbers for help.