math! the cool kind!

[jedusor]

I like it when all my samples are the same size, because then I don't have to go in and recalculate mean/standard deviation/standard error if the value I'm calculating for happens to show up more than once in the results. *happy wiggle*

(There is nothing more awesome than using statistics on actual true-facts data, especially when I gathered the data myself. I am finding things out that no one has ever found out before. This is why I do this, you guys. *wiggle wiggle wiggle*)

ETA: seriously, when I run an analysis, there's a minute before I tell Dr. K the results when I am the only person in the universe who knows or has ever known this one little thing about how the world works. It's the most fucking amazing feeling I've ever had.

Comments

[cecilmom.livejournal.com]

Exactly! This is what I'm always trying to tell my students! It's the best thing about doing research -- the pure joy of knowing you've learned something *new* that you can share with the world.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Adorable scientist is adorable. :)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

It's so weird to realize that I am now out of school and actually working as a scientist, as a job. I mean, I still have plans to go to grad school and do behavioral neuroscience at some point, but right now I am actually a neuroscientist. It's kind of mindblowing.