It happened again. A study which originally was planned to result in a short article has now morphed into a 10,000+ word fiesta. But then we got some interesting results and decided to investigate some additional effects, etc., and before we knew it, the data set was too large to be contained within the original scope. Luckily we're only weeks away from submitting it to one of the better journals within or close to my discipline, but it's been a far longer journey than what I anticipated.
"Yeah; we'll just do this short study over summer and get it into the journal quickly, bro"....yeah right. I'm on the verge of accepting that I've got close to zero possibility of predicting within three months (or worse) how long a particular study is going to take from start of execution to finished manuscript.
"Yeah; we'll just do this short study over summer and get it into the journal quickly, bro"....yeah right. I'm on the verge of accepting that I've got close to zero possibility of predicting within three months (or worse) how long a particular study is going to take from start of execution to finished manuscript.
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