3 days, 20 hours, and 8 pages, its a beauty. I must have rewrote each sentence close to 3 times. When you write this sort of document, you are forced to clean and linearize all of your ideas. Doing this was not easy, and I was forced to face some deep theoretical issues that have escaped me in the past months. However, tonight I was able to tackle them head on and draw new distinctions that I would have never considered. Because of this, I even added a new condition to the battery of tests in my effort paradigm. Now there are 6 task conditions. I decided to build in some flexibility that will allow me to mix and match these conditions for each project to answer some brand new psychological questions and make some pretty compelling models with the data. Now, within these 3 projects, there can be multiple experiments as the batteries of tests can be analyzed for different relationships. Needless to say, I am excited and enthusiastic about the coming year, and my honors thesis is no longer worrisome.
