another night...

Here at work. Wait, now that it's about 6pm, I should go clock in...I was a bit early, so I decided to wait. Okay, I'm back. Last night was my night with Megan. she brought "The Butterfly Effect" over for us to watch. She's coming home with me this weekend, and she wants to see "The Prestige". I wouldn't mind seeing that again. My mom also wants to take us to a hockey game.

Found out some news today: the project paper is due next tuesday. Ugh. so, we ran the analysis today, hopefully we did it right. Wasn't sure if we ran the correlation and linear regression right, but we're going to talk to Dr. Asbury tomorrow...crap, I have to call Bryan and tell him that I forgot that I won't be here tomorrow, I'll be in Greensboro with the choir. We're singing at the Baptist State Convention. That will be loads of fun, getting up at a quarter to five just to go sing for an hour and sit through the whole morning program. But back to what I was saying, we need to find out from Dr. Asbury if we did those two analyses right. But I'm going to start writing the method tonight, and half of the analysis portion, and he will do the other half and the discussion. Then, hopefully, we'll have it done. Then we have Thanksgiving break to work on the Powerpoint presentation.

But, you're dying to know the results of the study, right? Well, I should probably tell you what we're studying first. We were testing to see if, one, violent video games increase aggression levels like previous studies indicate, and two, if they do, does that aggression decrease over time? The last bar graph pretty much sums it up: those that we tested immediately after playing the violent video game (Halo 2) had only slightly more aggression than the control group that did not play a game at all, and significantly less agression than the group that we tested the day after game play. This is not what we hypothesized. Possible causes? My roommate suggested that playing a violent game may serve as a catharsis of their aggressive feelings, and that the next day, their feelings were back to normal, suggesting that those that were attracted to the Halo tournament were actually more aggressive individuals than the average person. Of course, this is all speculation, particularly the last part. We would have had to test the players before playing the game to assess their normal level of aggressiveness.

Well, I'm going to the Chamber Ensemble concert tonight, whatever that is. So, I'll be closing the lab at 7:30 so I can make it over there. I should probably get to writing then...