You only see the end results. I broke down the hours someone who does this sort of research typically spends, Lets say its at an academic psych department, typically you're required to teach 3 courses per semester. that's 5-6 hours per week of prep time and class time per course. 18 hours. Then there's departmental and other meetings, typicaly 1.5 hours and 3 to 5 of them per week, I'll spit the different, 4 meetings at 1.5 hours 6 hours. Grad student advising, you may have 4 or 5 students, 2 hours per student per week. 10 hours. Grading essays, tests and quizzes (you may be able to dump the quizzes on the grad students though), another 12 hours at least. Many universities require outside community involvement of all profs, 2 hours per week may be typical. Only part of your salary is covered by the department. Typically they expect you to bring in about the equivalent per semester of around 40% of your salary in the overhead portion of the grants. So you spend some time report writing and proposals for grants. 6 hours. Peer review and other journal/conference related activities (reading abstracts, sitting on conference committees etc) 6 hours. So even before doing any research you're already at 60 hours per week. So doing research related activities, - literature searchers, experimental design, data analysis, conducting the studies, writing up the research, 10 to 20 hours.
I'd rather do the web development, much easier. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:52 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All of this sounds so much more interesting than web development... > > On 2/16/2012 9:04 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> I'll have to study this a bit, but I see a few errors in how the >> authors conducted the meta analysis that may invalidate their >> conclusions. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347067 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
