Why yes, I do have to re-take 4000 VOT measurements today. It's what I do every day!
I have spent literally every day this week cycling through the same 110 sound files, labeling and relabeling and relabeling them. Another team of researchers was awesome enough to share their data with me, and my first order of business was to replicate their findings. (That's only the first order of business. The more interesting part is supposed to be what I do after I successfully replicate their findings.) I finally got some results this morning, and much to my chagrin, I did not replicate their findings. So now I have to re-measure everything again. Carefully. By hand.
And if I still don't replicate their findings, then I have a very awkward situation on my hands. Because they were kind enough to share their data with me, and then I have to be like, "Actually, I did this like four times, and there is now no possible way I can believe what you wrote in your paper. Because no matter how carefully I do this, I am not getting what you got."
So... cross your fingers that this re-measurement results in a successful replication? Because I am not re-doing these measurements another blasted time. And I don't really want to have to write a paper where I say "um thanks but you guys were wrong".
Saaaaaad faaaaaaaace. :-(((((
1 comment:
There's something in between "I did this like four times," and "there is now no possible way I can believe what you wrote in your paper." It's: "I did this like four times, and here is *exactly how I did it*, and I think I can't believe you if that's also what you did. Can you confirm?"
But yeah, awkward... Good luck, and I hope it all coincides! I hate redoing manual stuff in Praat... eeks.
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