[Babase] Re: Agnonisim and grooming errors
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Thu Mar 15 13:38:42 EDT 2007
>>I suspect, just based on what the data looked like, that even
>>though the rule was to just enter first of the month for all data,
>>the rule was not always followed....
>
>>Two is to force the dates to the 1st prior to some reasonable date.
>
>>
>>On the whole I like option 2 with the caveat that we probably
>>cannot get a very good exact answer to this and we should not try.
>>We should use the data to guide us to a reasonable date and go with
>>that.
>
>My thoughts run along the same lines. Having in mind that
>it'd sure be nice to have actual dates, if there are large blocks
>of time during which the dates were not forced to the first
>of the month we could leave these as-is. In other words,
>we're not restricted to saying that "everything before
>date X is on the first". We could be more flexable if
>that makes sense.
OK this is helpful, but the issue is, how much detective work will it
take and how much is it worth?
>An incomplete thought: The user will need to be concerned
>with this issue to some extent (right?) because the psion data
>is always to-the-day. ... I guess no matter what
>the user will have to think about it because
>of the way the data's been entered.
So far we have never queried the data (as far as I know) in a way
such that the dates of the agonisms or groomings actually matter. For
the Psion-related data it matters what Psioni sample they are
connected to. For all others, we have never asked any question about
the date within the month. However this does not mean that we won't
ask it at some point, so we need to clean this up.
So, the question now is, how do we proceed?
We need to find the blocks of time during which we want to force the
dates to the 1st, right? Is everyone in agreement?
Three options:
1. Leah and Lacey do it. This will give Lacey lots of practice with
queries. Problem: it may interfere with, rather than accelerate, the
training process, and Leah's time is quite precious at the moment. So
i think we shouldn't do this unless L&L think it is a good idea from
the training perspective.
2. Tabby does it.
3. Susan does it.
Please advise.
Susan
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