It probably doesn't matter that SPSS is shagged
there's not enough data for a statistically relevant or meaningful conclusion. You'll have to go with gut feeling.

Mind you, you're right about applying to the SSRC. They'll fund anything. Even better, try the ESRC. It'll be worth it for comedy purposes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 12:54, 1 reply)

I reckon
I could get away with a non-parametric test. Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney, perhaps, as that contains both "cocks" and "man" in the name.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 12:58, closed)

yeah
but that would just be using clever statistics to cover up the fact you haven't got any data ;)

not that I've ever successfully generated a straight line by replotting data on a logarithmic/probability axis. Or got it published. Several times. Oh no. That would be very wrong.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 13:01, closed)

don't worry
I won't tell anyone. I mean, it's surely not the reason why my last journal paper has had a total of one citation in a whole year.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 13:03, closed)

cyclic citations are the way forward.
enter into citing deals with your academic friends. Or, in my case, write fairly high-profile reviews and cite yourself ;)

It's all just one giant circle jerk/cluster fuck/daisy chain*

*delete as applicable
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 14:23, closed)

One of my papers
has been cited 82 times, purely on the basis that it contains the most comprehensive literature survey on the topic so everyone just says "see CHCB et al.". No one has remarked on the glaring errors in it, probably because they're just relieved they didn't have to write it themselves.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 14:28, closed)

Ah, that's good work, right there.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 16:14, closed)