Worksheet 1

Don’t worry they said, It will be easy they said. My first worksheet attempt was a flop and mighty discouraging. After working through the quiz several more times, I understood what steps I was missing and am much more comfortable with finding the full names and coding for variables. The textbook is incredibly helpful, and although I expect the data manipulations to become increasingly harder, I am reassured that I can rely on the textbook to guide me well enough through. It has been a really eye opening experience thus far. Previously, I just looked at data and didn’t think about the leg work or assumed it was just excel inputs. I was most definitely wrong. This will be challenging for me because it is new, but exciting because it will help me grow and understand the components of conducting thorough research. I would one day love to publish research or a formal paper and this class will help me have an understanding, even if just at the most basic level, of what that process entails. Here’s hoping worksheet 2 goes better than the first!