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So Im in 2nd year of a 4 year PHD, I changed to new topic end of last february and pretty much scrambled it together very quickly for funding application. Anwho I have just this week come accross research that has done alot of what I had planned to do, but just interpreted in a different theoretical framework ( with little proof of that explanation either) I have a novel and more explanatory account of the relationships involved, which i plan on testing. But now I fear this isn't enough to base my whole Phd on. I'm totally freaked, just emailed my supervisor and asked him his opinion. I worked hard last year, but had some issues over the summer (nowhere to live, no aircon in study space in uni, personal issues, problems getting data- basically didn't do as much as I should have. since term started I have been working hard, I have a lot of classes to take (3) and teach on 2. for example next week classes, teaching and lab group takes up 16 hours spread over week and thats just 'show up' time, doesn't include work put in for those classes and teaching. my supervisor told me i should be doing 40 hours research on top of that. so maybe I should. I struggled with changing sleep schedule and adjusting to work load, so I suppose research suffered a bit, and I feel my supervisor is now unhappy with me ( he was fine last year) but he said things that lead me believe he is presently unhappy with me. so the two things combined I fear I am going to be asked to leave with Mphil. any opinions on this appreciated, going crazy with worry over here.

well i will give you the benefit of the doubt, also I see no harm in helping someone with their homework As far as I can see they are all simple correlations, bar no.4 which is a multiple regression Take my advice with a pinch of salt , as I don't consider myself good at stats 1) Accuracy on NUm DIS should correlate (positively) with Accuracy on line length same for RT 2) Time taken on Mag Discrim. should correlate with difficulty same for Nuim COMP 4) RT for line length RT for NUm > regressed onto Accuracy RT for inspection the RTs are your IV (Criterion) variables and Accuracy is your DV (outcome variable) this is how I understood it anyway, It really seemed to me you were making it way more complicated that it needed to be. However if this your FYP, go talk to your advisor or a statistical consulting center (if you have one at your UNI) If this undergrad homework it would make sense that they just examining correlation and regression- I recommend Andy Fields book also -You should take this opportunity to understand these tests association = Correlation difference= t-test ( Anova, more than two IVs) (Manova, more than 2 DV's) ( Regression, does X predict Y, how much of variance in Y, does X account for) disclaimer: I don't consider myself to be particularly good at stats (yet). Also I found it hard to understand what you were trying to do from what you wrote. Good Luck

2 rejections, and still waiting... its comforting to know i'm not the only one!