data analysis is a bitch…
I’m correlating my data with this or that element to see whether there’s enrichment of all sorts of chromosomal craps. I don’t feel excited when it’s statistically significantly different from random distribution because I don’t know what that means, because I don’t have hypotheses to start with, because I’m doing it only because it’s there, because I didn’t like it when my ex-BF told me someone’s answer to why climb Everest is “because it’s there.”
…so, I asked my boss why it’ll be an interesting result if something is ASSOCIATED with something else genome-wide. “Those are the kind of stuff I skip through very fast when I’m reading the result section of a paper. ” I said, and soon realized all the “becauses” in the above paragraph are excuses I’ve made up. Here’s what really happened:
I have VERY short attention span => I skipped through later part the of result section very fast, and results like something is associated with something else often come up late in a paper => I never really seriously thought about those kind of results unless the information per se is closely-related to what I’m working on => I’m not liking those kind of results.
The solution is having my reading speed commensurate with my attention span. But I haven’t figured out why I’m not liking things I never seriously thought about.
