Foreign Perspectives

I thought that I’d be well ahead yesterday with the TMA but it turned out that the coding phase of the assignment took a whole lot longer than expected so I’m only getting around to writing up the results section this evening.

You’d think that going through about an hour of video and assigning codes to the various responses that the participants made wouldn’t take a whole lot longer than an hour but it does. The snag is, of course, that you need to start and stop the video almost constantly throughout just to keep up with typing up the coding of it. Thus, instead of taking an hour to watch it you’re looking at something closer to twice that which is a) longer and b) a whole lot more boring. I don’t think I’m cut out for coding psychology experiments.

Anyway, now it’s on to analyse the results and write up something reasonably sensible about them. Hopefully, that won’t take nearly so long as the coding did ‘cos I need to get onto writing up the discussion pretty soon and it’s looking like quite a busy week.