[Babase] "On" vs "By" sexual maturity dates & Tdate maturity markers

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:16:13 +0000


Susan, maybe you could answer this.  If not would
you please draw Jeanne's attention?

I assume that when female's have a "By" date then their
first Tdate need not be their assigned maturity date, it could
be sometime after.  Right?

This plays into Jeanne's comments on the documentation
where she seems to assume that maturity dates will
have some sort of Bstatus like plus-or-minus X years
time range.   If I'm reading her comments right.
I don't think we want this.

I seem to recall arriving at the conclusion that all
maturity dates are definite -- even though some
simply set a definite upper bound.  This sounds
good.  And it seems ok that those that are not
exact need not be exactly on a Tdate.

If it turns out we do want some rough estimate of
when maturity happened I'd say that's a different
bit of data and we should leave the current
maturity date design alone and add to it to
get more information.  A phone call would be
required I think.


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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