Just back from a nice three week break which was much needed. I was really at my wits end with everything going on. Lack of progress on in my work, studies being cancelled, never-ending house renovations, family stress, etc, etc. It was all too much and it resulted in me not being able to focus.
One of the major problems had to do with two of my studies needing to be stopped because of corona complications. First, I couldn't recruit for one study because clinical partners were hesitant to take on more work. Second, we just ran out of time to do the eye-tracking. The first was an issue that took a lot of time and effort to try and resolve. Both of these activities already took a lot of time and energy away from me so it's disappointing that again nothing will come of it (reminds me of all the work I put into the lung cancer case study), but I feel like that is not uncommon in academia if you think about all the time that goes into writing grant proposals.
Anyway, one of the things I was thinking about was how to move forward with the diabetes case study. We had just said to stop everything but 1) we have data collected so why not find a new way to use it, and 2) we already paid thousands of euros for more responses we aren't going to use. I know that this is a bit of a sunk cost fallacy, but it seems a shame to not use this opportunity to produce something if the option presents itself. I was thinking of comparing responses from the beginning of the corona pandemic to those after a few months of living in it. It could also be a nice reproducibility study.
But my real focus needs to be on getting this first article out! Tomorrow I want to print out the results to look at them on paper. I just focus better that way. Then I can revise the results and get back to writing everything up.
Here's to hoping I can stay focused!
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