Sweet Moses, I just finished my econometrics project... It literally took me 50 hours to do, exluding all the time I spent searching for a proper data set. Hot damn, it's 18 pages long, and it's still probably way too short (some other guy in my class has this crazy project and has about 40 pages of work involved). If you're curious, I was attempting to measure the true correlation between levels of pressure a family puts on their child to succeed academically entering freshman, and how well they perform in college as of their sophmore year. I had to account for simultaneity bias, omitted variable bias, heteroskedasticity, oh good lord, it's a pitiful project, I tell you what...

Anyway, I have another project due tomorrow that I've barely started, and a final at 8am, then another on Thursday. I know this is the time of year again where we've all got some serious academic shit going down, and I just want to wish you all good luck in your pursuits, and I hope you all survive the uphill struggle to that much needed break!

jodogohoo

Canada2533 Posts

June 08 2010 04:43 GMT

"I was attempting to measure the true correlation between levels of pressure a family puts on their child to succeed academically"

awesome : ) i would love to see the results of your project :o

shmay

United States1091 Posts

June 08 2010 04:43 GMT

that sounds like absolute hell dude. ill be up all night studying as well

johnlee

United States242 Posts

June 08 2010 04:45 GMT

On June 08 2010 13:31 InTheFade wrote:
Anyway, I have another project due tomorrow that I've barely started, and a final at 8am

Oh geez

Good luckkkkkkkkkkkk

Milkis

5003 Posts

June 08 2010 04:45 GMT

How did you measure levels of pressure? Also, what kind of theory were you using to justify and etc? (I'm quite interested in reading your project!)

Also whoo, Finals week

Incanus

Canada695 Posts

June 08 2010 04:46 GMT

An uphill struggle indeed! I slept in, and proceeded to play SC2 and sit around all day.

I'm curious, where would you find a data set that includes how much pressure a family puts on their children to succeed academically, and how was it measured?

InTheFade

United States1721 Posts

June 08 2010 04:46 GMT

On June 08 2010 13:43 jodogohoo wrote:
i would love to see the results of your project :o

I would like to say that my project is just bad; however, there is research that indicates that students that are pressured by their parents are more likely to cheat in their academic careers, even in college, thus perhaps pressure does lead to higher college grade point averages due to the increased likelihood of academic dishonesty.

InTheFade

United States1721 Posts

June 08 2010 04:54 GMT

On June 08 2010 13:46 Incanus wrote:
An uphill struggle indeed! I slept in, and proceeded to play SC2 and sit around all day.

I'm curious, where would you find a data set that includes how much pressure a family puts on their children to succeed academically, and how was it measured?

So here's the deal, it is an undergrad course (400-level, but still), and my professor gave us a lot of wiggle room given the lack of exhaustiveness in some data sets. As we might imagine, some very important aspects of life are not observable or accurately measured, such as effort, motivation, ability (important to know for calculating predicted wages and growth of wage-- if we only knew!) and emotional "levels." In my data set, randomly selected incoming freshman were given a slew of survey questions, for example, in my case, they were asked to rank on a scale of 1 to 7 how important it was for them to satisfy the academic expectations of their parents. This is of course a horrible subsitute for reality, but again, wiggle room, and unobservability. My professor is chiefly concerned with the quality of the writing and interpretation; he doesn't expect perfect models, considering that we all only know how to use simple models like OLS, GLS, Logit, and LCM. We talked about this extensively. I'm considering independent study under his supervision, because I really want to make a more advanced model that is far more accurate than the junk I'm about to turn in.