1-2 hours of researching the forum software and collecting records on when who said what and where, in reference to what posting earlier, which was a reply to something before that, claiming contexts the other denied or forgot or rejected, and this over several different discussion threads on the same principle issue, with many diverting sub-discussions on micromanaged sub-level details in...
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As long as one cannot get an academic grade for that, I think I pass on it. Using SPSS for the statistics part of my diploma study was easier.