Whatever happens, I am content, and hopefully, there will be other options ahead as I am trying to stay positive for the future that is all I can do. I am a thousand words off, but I will work up to the deadline and hand in what I have done, knowing I have done the best I can thus far. I also feel like I can’t do this, and this is the first assignment where I have struggled greatly. I don’t think I’m doing pure statistics as I am doing Forensic Psych, but I am in Year 2 doing my first study with my data, and well, let’s say I have two days left before the deadline and my literature review and discussion is poor. So its less like taking a ruler and more like making a new ruler everytime (by some defined method) that only will measure what you created it for, and strictly told, nothing else. We cant see what we are measuring and we cant see our measuring stick so we try to keep both defined by math. All the assumptions are just there to make sure either your measuring stick stays the same, or what you are trying to measure stays the same. We try to make some unit of distance (for instance a standard deviation), relative to some defined point (for instance the mean)Īnd in this way we measure distances in some distribution which is just a collection of data representing some sample of some population.Įverything that makes statistics hard comes from our lack of a measuring stick. In social sciences we dont have a measuring stick with cm or inches.Īnd we cant see the thing we try to measure.Īnd we create the visibility of the thing we want to measure I see loads of good advice, but this one worked for me, its to realise the abstraction of what we are doing.

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