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tania:
yeah you can jimmy! exploratory factor analysis is actually really super easy because the software pretty much does all the work for you. the basic concept is that you set up a bunch of questions that assess different behaviors or competencies or whatever and then the factor analysis does the work of identifying the latent variables for you. i could even like, okay i guess there's no way i can say this without sounding kind of patronizing (if it does i apologize and feel free to tell me to fuck off) but i took a grad level statistics course last year and did pretty well and i could like give you a run down on how it works because i really think it will not only reduce the amount of work you have to do for this thing but could actually even make it really exciting and fun and the overall results a lot more meaningful because it eliminates the bias that comes from doing confirmatory analyses with predefined variables. remind me in a couple of weeks though because i am like really insanely overwhelmed with papers and marking right now
tania:
also yeah i dd my undergrad in four years but like, look at me, dude, look at my life and my posts, i'm a fucking mess. achieving relative academic success as an introverted social misfit asshole with a diseased mind fit only for research is really not much to be proud of
Jimmy the Squid:
Any help you are willing to provide would be hugely appreciated (can I send homemade brownies by airmail? Is that a thing I am allowed to do?), Tania. Sometimes I'm feeling like everyone around me is some sort of statistical/mathematical genuis and I'm hitting a gazelle in the head with a rock and screaming at the sky when there's a storm.
tania:
yeah i honestly wouldn't mind helping you out at all, i used to think i was terrible at statistics and pretty much was really terrible at anything even remotely math-related up until last year, but i honestly believe that about 99.9% of understanding anything is just having people who are willing to take the time to explain it to you in a way that makes sense and i was lucky enough to have a really excellent professor last year who really did explain things clearly and easily cos i ended up really getting statistics in a way i never thought possible before and now i actually really like it a lot and think it is super cool and interesting. plus as you get to the more complicated stuff, the software actually does most of the work for you so you really only need to understand the fundamental basics of how the analyses work and then like, how to interpret results, which once you get the hang of is actually about 1000x easier than the calculus bullshit they make you learn in high school. if you want i could email you an assignment i did on this last year just to give you a rough idea of what i mean by factor analysis and how it can help you with your research and then i'd be totally willing to help you out with whatever else you need but like, my only request is that it's gotta wait until after the 15th or 16th cos i am kind of dying a slow death right now, like i can actually feel my body dying
Jimmy the Squid:
My thesis isn't due until October, totally wait until you are less deathy.
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