I Hate This Stuff

One of my major projects this summer has been, and continues to be, some analysis of data collected over the past 10 years in the Neuse River estuary. I can't really get anywhere with it. The problem is that I'm smart enough to know that what I'm doing is wrong, probably in two or three different ways, but I don't know enough to do anything about it. If I were dumber I'd be finished, because I'd have no idea how statistically dubious some of my results are. I'd be satisfied. Wrong, but satisfied. If I knew a lot more statistics I could probably fix it. But I can't. And nobody in the department seems to know much more statistics than I do, so I'd have to call in somebody from applied math or something, which would probably wind up being a whole big thing. I just want it to go away!