Thursday, July 29, 2010
Research is such a tedious process, why would anyone put themselves through such torture!!! I'm at the stage just before I generate my results, and the pain I've been through just to reach this stage is indescribable. No words can explain the feeling you get having to truncate over 7 million observations to get 488838 observations, and that's just the beginning! How do you describe the pain of analysing 488838 observations to write up over 200 commands to create 9 variables for the first simple regression?
I'm actually asking!! When someone asks, "How's your research?" I know they are looking for a simple one liner, but how do you summarise the above? So far, I've only been able to come up with "painful".
Dan
6:48 pm