Well, I'm enrolled in a module on quantitative research methods. Actually, more like been forced to enroll. My thesis focuses on the rise of trans-national religious movements, and is largely--strike that--entirely qualitative. Now my adviser wants me to include a whole section on why I'm not relying on the quantitative method. To that end, I'm now forced to read Gravetter and Wallnau's Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences. In an ideal world, professors wouldn't intervene so much, and a 100-word explanation rounded off by a footnote should be enough to say why the quant. isn't my method of choice. But no. This is a tedious text, guys. So much time and energy just on this feels unjustifiable to me.