Alexis Bushnelloooh I am studying synaesthesia for uni this week and it is super fun and I love brains so much!
I have just under 2 weeks of steroids - I'm gonna see if I can get caught up on uni totally in those 2 weeks rather than the month and a bit I've been given, being as my body and brain both work at the moment. Which is a science created miracle!
BOOM! Assignment done (not submitted yet, I'm gonna re-read it again later) complete with rant about Queerphobia in psychological research.
Right, today is hopefully a power through 1-2 weeks of uni day as I play catch up.
Managed 400 messy words laying down via speech to text but can't sit up long enough to edit them into something coherent and closer to the 600 limit
Asking Fedi cos my tutor doesn't know the answer to this:
It surprises me that a correlation coefficient of +/-0.5 or more is considered strong correlation in psychology. That seems like an awfully low bar for "strong" correlation. I would have assumed that +/-0.7 or more would be considered strong and +/-0.4 to +/-0.6 moderate.
Is there some reason that 0.5 was chosen as the bottom end of "strong"?
I'm trying to learn to celebrate this year and to allow myself to be proud of the "not perfect" achievements that are still something to be proud of. But it is a practice and it requires conscious choice, and often a lot of nervous system soothing.
My most recent assignment was another 85% and instead of giving in to the shame I feel about that being "so low" and not good enough, I am fighting back by sharing it.
Shame dies in sunlight ☀️.
so in good (maybe) news, the support person DSA have given me is AuDHD and has done an OU psychology degree. Seeing her on Wednesday.
I want to get this assignment finished and sent in this morning but I am, once again, struggling to understand what they actually want me to do.
"Drawing on material in chapter 7 and the online material in week 9, evaluate the role of environmental factors on an individual’s experience of stress."
I know they don't mean evaluate the research that has been done into environmental factors and what it tells us about that now.
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He also specifically said:
"I think that our approach to essay questions needs to be reformed and also that tutors may need to receive more explicit guidance about how to mark TMAs based on this kind of question."
And also specifically about me right now:
"Anyway, if you have time to include a paragraph about non-environmental factors that is great but if you haven’t got time then don’t worry about it at this stage."
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