objectification and feminism and periods………oh my!

Anytime one writes, one must be prepared to revise.  I’ve known this since I started writing papers in grade school, and it has only become more important now that I regularly publish.  I accept this and have actually come to welcome the opportunity to strengthen my writing after receiving feedback from expert readers.  Despite this, there is always some stress involved in this process.

My frequent research partner and I recently received a set of reviews for an article we’re really excited about.  While the reviews asked us to make substantial changes, they were generally favorable, and we have ever hope that this paper will be published in this journal after a round or two of revisions.  This one was made a bit more stressful, however, because we had to do a number of new/revised statistical analyses.

Anytime you need to re-analyze data, it is possible that your conclusions could change drastically.  We faced just such a situation yesterday afternoon as we delved back into our data.  In the end, however, we had very few changes, and none that were particularly troublesome.  We now feel that a quality revision is possible in relatively short order.  This also served to remind me how much fun it can be to get down and dirty with data.  My undergrad stat teacher, let alone my graduate mentors, would be so proud!