You heard it here first: Preliminary dissertation results.

I just sent my dissertation advisor an e-mail describing the results of my first pass through the data analysis and asking where he thinks I should go from here. It occurred to me that maybe some of my booster section - all of whom are too kind or too well-trained to actually ask me how my dissertation's going - would like to know about the results as they emerge.

Very quick summary/review: My dissertation is about whether children with physical disabilities are at greater risk of parental abuse, and which parent, child, and family factors may affect the likelihood that parents will abuse their disabled children. My major outcome variable is the likelihood that parents will select physical punishment responses to slides of children misbehaving. (See explanation here)
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