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Hi Everyone Sorry if the number of emails (many from me) have been annoying. And I'm adding another to it, but this is the only one. Some thoughts: I'm not a postgrad, and haven't been for some time. I stay on this list because I started it, in (I think) 1993 (but it might have been 1992; archives only go back to 1997, or so), so I feel sort of nostalgic for it. I don't think non-postgrads should be on the list, because it should be a forum where postgrads can (for example) moan about stuff without lecturers/professors either 'listening in' or hearing. One of the earliest discussions was about who had the most irritating supervisor, for example. I don't work in a university, and I don't work in the UK, so I feel fairly separate from those - there's a chance that I might know your supervisor, but it's unlikely I would be able to connect you (I worked in the UK until 1996, but haven't worked in a psychology department since 2001). Every now and then I send an email to ask if people think I should continue - I realize there's a lot of turnover on this list, and I've just checked the archives - the last time I asked was 1997, so most people probably weren't on the list then. If there was any kind of feeling that I shouldn't be here, I would completely understand and will not be insulted or chagrined. I started the list as a sort of British psycgrad, which is a long running, and was very active, US/Canada psychology graduate (=postgraduate) list. I don't know if that list still exists, but I found it overwhelming (and largely irrelevant), so I left it and start this one. Being on mailing lists is a good way to know what is going on in your discipline, but you have to manage them. Some people use a secondary email address (I don't use my work email address, for example, partly for this reason, but also because the company I work for [RAND Corporation] doesn't like to be associated with public statements made by researchers that are not "official"). I am on lots of mailing lists, it's very useful, and I use filters to delete emails from people I don't like or are boring, and filters to label emails from lists, so * *I can skip them, and I don't even begin to attempt to read everything. I have 23,072 unread emails in my inbox. 317 of them are from psych-postgrads. Every now and then I delete everything. There are probably better places to seek statistical advice than this list - because people other than me answer. :) Seeking advice on hard problems (like statistics) from just me and other postgrads probably isn't ideal. I try to advertise the psych-methods list pretty regularly on here (because I started that, and still 'own' it). There's also the methodspace.comwebsite, there's a sas list, an SPSS list, and an R list, and a stata list. There's a structural equation modeling list, and a multilevel list, there's a teaching-statistics list (that's mine too), and an imputation list and a moderation and mediation group on facebook [that's the only facebook group I know of on statistics that is active], and so on. There's an individual differences list, psychometrics list (I think it died) and there are probably many more. For those reasons, I don't think a psych-postgrads forum is the best place to seek advice. Jeremy P.S. I'll go and check out methodspace now. I need to debate the use of old data with someone. -- Jeremy Miles Psychology Research Methods Wiki: www.researchmethodsinpsychology.com