“Ambiguity is part of life and we will have to learn to live with it and/or be continually frustrated by it.”
~ Someone in my Learning Environments class (2006)

I’m currently working on recoding all the articles in my meta-analysis. I thought I had a good handle on all the items and their definitions. But after training 3 of my fellow coursemate to code a third of all the articles, I find that there’s so much ambiguity. It’s frustrating! For every question that they have for me regarding the codes, for each time some form of clarification is required: it’s another decision that I have to make. And I can’t just make any random decision, it has to be a rational, informed, “helpful in answering my research questions” decision, and I have to be prepared to defend those decisions. What makes this harder is the fact that there cannot be any ambiguity: It has to be a yes or a no, and not a maybe.

Anyway, Premack principle has been enforced once again. It’s ridiculous, I know.

This time, I am only allowed to update this blog after I have recoded all 39 articles in my database (review previous codes and make changes, if necessary; calculate every single effect size; make decisions for every item that needs some form of decision making) and enter all data into SPSS.