[Babase] Psion jpsamps and fpsamps in wrong tables
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Sat Mar 3 16:47:30 EST 2007
On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 03/03/2007 03:12:14 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
>> I will try sum up the problem as I see it (and my views on it) as
>> follows:
>
>> On the other hand, we could continue to allow females to have both
>> juv and adult samples collected on them for some time. This would
>> be conceptually messy but would reflect the reality that the
>> observers will make these errors.
>
> It's not just observer error, although it's presumably observer error
> if there's juvenile samples collected after the first adult female
> sample is collected. It's not an error to have juvenile samples
> after the maturity date because it takes time for the
> "maturity" decision to get back to the field.
Yes, I agree, thanks for clarifying this point.
S
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
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