Saturday, April 02, 2005

a sincere apology, followed by our regularly scheduled programming

I must sincerely apologize for not updating this week: it seems my schedule for this past week had consisted of things that I would term as "better things to do." A concise summary would consist of a calculus test, a series of frustrating physics homeworks, and a physics lab; I have not, however, seen the end of the obsession of teachers to group all their little cute 'projects' in a small frame of time, and I must report with a heavy heart that I will probably not update this thing next week either. To attach any negative connotations to this outcome would, however, require the presupposition that you guys give a damn in the first place; a presupposition that, in view of recent comments (or lack thereof), I would rationally be unable to make.
There was, however, one event that happened this week worth noting: This Friday I spent an hour of my time participating in a psychology experiment. No, they didn't have us run a maze, unfortunately; instead, they just told me to go into a room and take a survey and afterwards I would participate in a 'group experiment,' which I found out later was just a filthy lie. When I finished the survey, the experimenter took me to a room to get my feedback, which she immediately regretted. I spent ten minutes lecturing her on some of biases that I thought the structure of the experiment contained, and how the sample might not statistically represent the population of interest. After a few minutes of this, I was promptly escorted out and told that I would never be allowed to participate in the "Strawberry Shortcake" psychology experiment again. I then tasted the tears of unfathomable sadness, and they taste pretty bad. :(